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    The Amazing Mr. Franklin: Or the Boy Who Read Everything

    By Ruth Ashby and Michael G. Montgomery

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    Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin was an important statesman, inventor, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. But did you know he started the first public library in America?
    Ben Franklin was always a “bookish” boy. The first book he read was the Bible at age five, and then he read every printed word in his father’s small home library. Ben wanted to read more, but books were expensive. He wanted to go to school and learn, but his family needed him to work. Despite this, Ben Franklin had lots of ideas about how to turn his love of reading and learning into something more. First he worked as a printer’s apprentice, then he set up his own printing business. Later, he became the first bookseller in Philadelphia, started a newspaper, published Poor Richard’s Almanac, and in 1731, with the help of his friends, organized the first subscription lending library, the Library Company.
    Ruth Ashby’s fast-paced biography takes young readers through Franklin’s life from his spirited, rebellious youth through his successful career as an inventor and politician and finally to the last years of his life, surrounded by his personal collection of books.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeachtree Publishers
    Release dateApr 14, 2014
    ISBN9781561457441
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    The Amazing Mr. Franklin: Or the Boy Who Read Everything
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    Ruth Ashby

    Ruth Ashby is a children's writer who focuses on nonfiction topics ranging from biology and paleontology to history and biography.

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      Really fun and interesting way to learn about Benjamin Franklin. The story starts when Franklin is seventeen and moving out of his home. It continues through all of his ups and downs and how he became successful in life. I think that this book is so great because it really is written like a story that children would enjoy and understand. The book includes a time line of Benjamin Franklin's life, a tables of contents, and an author's note. Great book to use for history or science lessons grades 4-6.