Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty by Russell Freedman

Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty

Russell Freedman

96 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history middle grade informative fast-paced
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In 1723 Ben Franklin arrived in Philadelphia as a poor and friendless seventeen-year-old who had run away from his family and an apprenticeship in Boston. Sixty-two years later he stepped ashore in nearly the same spot but was greeted by cannons, ...

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