What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?
by Jean Fritz and Margot Tomes
No matter how busy he was, Ben Franklin always found time to try out new ideas. Such... read more
- Grade
- 1-8
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
Year Published 1976
Word Count 4,956
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 830L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 5445
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Subject Headings
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Statesmen
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Political
- United States
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
- Statemen
- Lists With This Book
- First Grade Social Studies 2020-2021
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