Benjamin Franklin
(2013)
By:
Krull, Kathleen
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
Y/BIOGRAPHY/973.3/FRANKLIN,B/KRU
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2013
DESCRIPTION
121 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780670012879 (hardcover), 0670012874 (hardcover), 9780670012879, 0670012874 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction -- The swimmer -- The runaway -- Extraordinary ambition -- How to keep warm -- Electric picnics? -- Lightning strikes -- And more -- Wrong turns, right turns, and funny turns -- In his spare time -- Franklinmania -- Under the mulberry tree -- Lasting impact
"Kathleen Krull sheds new light on the Benjamin Franklin--who considered science his true calling in life, not nation building--in this perceptive, fair-minded portrait."--
10 plus
Grades 4 to 6
1140L