Filter By Subjects
Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 Juvenile literature Inventors Inventors United States Biography Juvenile literature Printers Printers United States Biography Juvenile literature Scientists Scientists United States Biography Juvenile literature Statesmen Statesmen United States Biography Juvenile literatureFilter By Authors
Fradin, Dennis B. Osborne, Mary Pope Rosen, Michael J. Rosenstock, Barb Shulman, MarkFilter By Subjects
Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 Juvenile literature Inventors Inventors United States Biography Juvenile literature Printers Printers United States Biography Juvenile literature Scientists Scientists United States Biography Juvenile literature Statesmen Statesmen United States Biography Juvenile literatureFilter By Authors
Fradin, Dennis B. Osborne, Mary Pope Rosen, Michael J. Rosenstock, Barb Shulman, MarkShulman, Mark
Summary: "Benjamin Franklin has been called one of the most accomplished and influential Americans in history, and his role in shaping the United States has had a lasting impact that is still felt today. Franklin's research into topics as varied as electricity, meteorology, demography, and oceanography were as wide-ranging and important as his travels, which took him across the globe as a diplomat."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Portable Press, an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Osborne, Mary Pope
Summary: Following their adventure with Benjamin Franklin, Jack and Annie want to learn more about the Founding Father and search out facts about his life and accomplishments, including his electricity kite-flying experiment and his most famous inventions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRAFradin, Dennis B.
Summary: A biography of the eighteenth-century printer, publisher, inventor, scientist, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2002
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 FraRosen, Michael J.
Summary: While his father unsuccessfully apprentices him to a joiner, a shoemaker, and turner, Benjamin experiments with wooden paddles as flippers and a kite, to his time as a printer⁰́₉s apprentice. "Young Benjamin Franklin wants to be a sailor, but his father won't hear of it. The other trades he tried bored him through and through. But each time he fails to find a career, he took some important bit...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRARosenstock, Barb
Summary: Retells the story of the famous thinker's first invention as a young Ben Franklin, troubled by the fact that fish swim better than he does, tries to invent a way to swim more fluidly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2014