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Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 Inventors Inventors United States Biography Juvenile literature Printers Printers United States Biography Juvenile literature Scientists Scientists Drama Scientists United States Biography Juvenile literature Statesmen Statesmen United States Biography Juvenile literatureLabatut, Benjamín
Summary: "A fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery, ethics and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness.Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work.The great mathematician...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushkin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LABCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LabatutMara, Wil.
Summary: Founding Father Benjamin Franklin is one of the most extraordinary human beings to have ever lived. One of Americas greatest statesman, Franklin was also a scientist, an inventor, and a printera man who always worked to make life better for his fellow citizens. The well-organized chapters help students identify key details while the photographs, timelines and other text features encourage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRAShulman, 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."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portable Press, an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRAOsborne, 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 FRASummary: Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most complex and consequential figures, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BENCopies Available at Kingsley
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BENFradin, 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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Summary: A beginning biography of young Ben Franklin who loves doing experiments and cannot wait to test out his latest idea involving a kite!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2002
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE KRERosen, 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 FRASummary: Rick Sanchez is still living with his daughter Beth's family and causing more trouble than ever. This season the rest of the family, his son-in-law Jerry, grand-daughter Summer and grand-son Morty are dragged into Rick's intergalactic adventures, as he faces new threats and mysteries of his secret past are revealed. Can the family survive Rick's insanity and all the chaos the universe throws at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD RICSummary: Hold onto your butts it's season five, baby! Rick, Morty, and the fam are back with ten all-new episodes that consume unheld butts. Sex, romance, testicle monsters⁵ a guy named Mr. Nimbus' It's everything you want, get your butt ready!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD RICCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RICSummary: Follows the adventures of mentally unbalanced scientist Rick and his grandson Morty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: From comedic masterminds Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland comes Adult Swim's newest series. It follows the adventures of mad scientist Rick Sanchez, who returns after twenty years to live with his daughter, her husband, and their children Morty and Summer. Includes all eleven episodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RICCole, Joanna.
Summary: Ms. Frizzle takes the gang on a tour through the history of science so they can get ideas for their science expedition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A family of scientists is on the brink of a powerful discovery when a mysterious force suddenly abducts them, leaving their young daughter April behind. Years later, April carries on her family's research in secret with her cat, Darwin, but soon finds herself at the center of a shadowy conspiracy and on the run from government agents, bicycle-powered airships, and cyborg rat spies!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016