Bibliograph

Becoming Ben Franklin, how a candle-maker's son helped light the flame of liberty, Russell Freedman

Type

Label

Becoming Ben Franklin, how a candle-maker's son helped light the flame of liberty, Russell Freedman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-82) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Intended audience

1170, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Becoming Ben Franklin

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

774867628

Responsibility statement

Russell Freedman

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader AR, MG, 8.4, 4.0, 157832.Reading Counts RC, 6-8, 11., 8, Quiz: 60369.

Sub title

how a candle-maker's son helped light the flame of liberty

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

Table Of Contents

The runaway apprentice -- Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia, printer -- Snatching lightning from the sky -- Borrowing an idea from the Iroquois -- Dr. Fatsides in the mother country -- Becoming a rebel -- Declaring independence -- An American in Paris -- A useful life -- Timeline

Target audience

juvenile

Creator