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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."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portable Press, an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group 2020
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Summary: An introduction to the life of young Benjamin Franklin describes how, as a rebellious teen in 1732, he ran away from his family and a Boston apprenticeship to Philadelphia, and how throughout subsequent decades he rose to become a distinguished statesman, renowned author and world-famous scientist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FRANKLIN FREOsborne, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRAByrd, Robert.
Summary: Presents a detailed tribute to the life and work of the Founding Father that augments parchment-style spreads with artwork, facts, and quotes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 FraAdler, David A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRAHarness, Cheryl.
Summary: Presents a life of the American statesman who was a diplomat, postmaster, inventor, and revolutionary and played an integral part in the founding of the nation through his great writings and communication skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2005