Becoming Ben Franklin
Subtitle: how a candle-maker's son helped light the flame of liberty
By: Russell Freedman
Series: EZ reading
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780545683593
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Statesmen; Biography; Inventors; Scientists; Printers
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, pages 78-82, and index.

1170L Lexile

ALSC Notable Children's Book, 2014.
Table of contents: title: The runaway apprentice; title: Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia, printer; title: Snatching lightning from the sky; title: Borrowing an idea from the Iroquois; title: Dr. Fatsides in the mother country; title: Becoming a rebel; title: Declaring independence; title: An American in Paris; title: A useful life.