Benjamin Franklin

📖 The Scoop

The engaging biographies in the Famous Inventors series breathe new life into students' and teachers' perennial favorites, offering an up-to-date perspective on inventors who changed our world. Each book is crammed with anecdotes and details about the inventor's journey from childhood curiosity to adult genius. Simple explanations, lots of photos, and colorful layouts make the inventors' lives and work accessible to young minds. Perfect for reports and for pleasure reading, each book includes a timeline, words to know, a further reading list with Internet addresses, and an index.As a child, Ben Franklin developed an insatiable appetite for books and for knowledge. As an adult, Franklin became, among other things, an inventor, a founding father, an ambassador to France, and an author. He started the first public library and founded the University of Pennsylvania. The man credited with discovering electricity had an unending desire to do more, no matter what the field. This compact, fact-filled biography shows young readers how Franklin's work continues to affect our lives even today.

Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Historical (fancy, right?)