Amazing, brilliant, and visionary are some of the words used to describe our founding father, Benjamin Franklin. He was a printer, writer, inventor, and statesman. During his life, he invented and discovered many, many things including the lightning rod, the Franklin stove, and bifocal glasses. He was an ambassador, started the first library, and helped write the Declaration of Independence. Electric Ben is an entertaining read about a man bigger than life. Winner of the 2013 Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Book Award and a Robert F. Sibert Honor book. Want to learn more about Benjamin Franklin? Read Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty by Russell Freedman.