Explore Learning Pathways: Ben Franklin
Travel in Time and visit with Ben Franklin. Ask him if he really flew that kite. Hear about the inventions that changed the world and the inventions that were just for fun! The whole family will enjoy Ben Franklin, portrayed by Stephen Smith a remarkable look alike.
Smith is a History Alive presenter with the Oklahoma Humanities Council with 24 years' experience and extensive research.
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Nonfiction
Now and Ben: the modern inventions of Benjamin Franklin by Gene Barretta
Electric Ben: the amazing life and times of Ben Franklin by Robert Byrd
Mesmerized: how Ben Franklin solved a mystery that baffled all of France by Mara Rockliff
Stealing God’s Thunder by Philip Dray
Ben Franklin’s Balloons (DVD) by Stéphane Bégoin
Fiction
Ben and Me: A new and astonishing life of Benjamin Franklin as written by his good mouse Amos by Robert Lawson
Ben Franklin’s Big Splash: the mostly true story of his first inventionM by Barb Rosenstock
George Washington’s Spy: a time travel adventure by Elvira Woodruff
The Patterer: a novel by Larry Brill
Franklin Affair by Jim Lehrer
Download a Great Book Through OverDrive
A Picture Book of Benjamin Franklin by David Adler
Who was Ben Franklin? (Audio eBook) by Dennis Brindell Fradin
Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares (Adobe EPUB; HTML; Kindle) by Frank Murphy
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the birth of America by Stacy Schiff
Book of Ages: the life and opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
For More Books On This Topic Search:
(Benjamin Franklin, Inventors, Founding Father)
Where to Browse in Your Library: Dewey Numbers
Biography, Children’s Biography
Explore These Magazines at Your Library
- Ask! Arts and Sciences for kids
- Cobblestone “The history magazine for children”
- Discover “The newsmagazine of science“
- Popular Science
- Smithsonian
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