franklin, benjamin

A biography of Benjamin Franklin that follows him from his childhood in Boston, where he was the son of a poor soap and candle maker with seventeen children, to his death, describing how Franklin became a self-made man who died a renowned statesman, scientist, printer, author, and inventor.

A juvenile biography of Benjamin Franklin, scientist, inventor, printer, writer, statesman, and Founding Father.

A biography of eighteenth-century printer, scientist, revolutionary, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin.

Presents a portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, Jane, and a wholly different account of the founding of the United States.

Sixteen-year-old Sabine Durand, accustomed to the life of wealth and privilege provided by her aristocratic parents in Paris in 1776, begins to think for herself when she is introduced to American revolutionary Ben Franklin and stikes up a forbidden friendship with Michel.

Introduces young children to the inventions created by Benjamin Franklin during his lifetime and how we use those inventions today.

The mouse who helped Benjamin Franklin become the great man he was tells his own story.

Aging inventor and statesman Benjamin Franklin participates in the debate surrounding the American colonies' potential break from Great Britain, ultimately helping to write and signing the Declaration of Independence.

A collection of maxims, arranged in approximately thirty categories, selected from various editions of Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanack.".