Meet Benjamin Franklin
Patricia A. Pingry
An introduction to the life of Benjamin Franklin that details his childhood, inventions, and efforts to bring freedom to our country, and highlights his life-long love of reading.
Read Time: ~5.3 hr
Thomas Alva Edison
by Laurie Rozakis (2006)
About this book
"The light bulb. Motion pictures. The phonograph. A talking doll! These are just a few of Thomas Alva Edison's inventions"--
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreThomas Alva Edison Lead Character
Readers who enjoyed this also loved
Women inventors
Jean F. Blashfield
Each volume presents brief accounts of five women and their inventions, including Sybilla Masters, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Anderson, and Nancy Perkins.
Guglielmo Marconi
Richard Tames
Discusses the visionary inventor's life and his application of theories in physics to discover the "wireless" and thus achieve wealth and international renown.
Nothing daunted
Gloria Repp
In 1922 Isobel Miller was a senior at the University of British Columbia -- beautiful, talented, popular -- and so miserable that she wanted to die. In her despair she began a search that was to last a lifetime: the search to know God. Her investigation led to the Bible and to Jesus Christ, and one day God gave her the desire to share what she had learned with the Lisu tribe in southwest China. Ten years passed before Isobel and her husband were finally sent to the Lisu's mountain wilderness. She grew to love the people dearly, and in her adventurous life she experienced the challenges of pioneer living, the perils of war, and the joys of proving the faithfulness of God. - Back cover.