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A Wizard from the Start: The Incredible Boyhood & Amazing Inventions of Thomas Edison
Contributor(s): Brown, Don (Author), Brown, Don (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0547194870     ISBN-13: 9780547194875
Publisher: Clarion Books
OUR PRICE:   $16.19  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: May 2010
* Not available - Not in print at this time *
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Historical
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology - Inventions
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2010279273
Lexile Measure: 940
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 8.2" W x 10.1" (0.70 lbs) 32 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Chronological Period - 1900-1949
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 136519
Reading Level: 5.4   Interest Level: Lower Grades   Point Value: 0.5
 
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Publisher Description:
A wizard from the start, Thomas Edison had a thirst for knowledge, taste for mischief, and hunger for discovery--but his success was made possible by his boundless energy. At age fourteen he coined his personal motto: "The More to do, the more to be done," and then went out and did: picking up skills and knowledge at every turn. When learning about things that existed wasn't enough, he dreamed up new inventions to improve the world.

From humble beginnings as a farmer's son, selling newspapers on trains and reading through public libraries shelf by shelf, Tom began his inventing career as a boy and became a legend as a man.


Contributor Bio(s): Brown, Don: -

Don Brown is the award-winning author and illustrator of many picture book biographies. He has been widely praised for his resonant storytelling and his delicate watercolor paintings that evoke the excitement, humor, pain, and joy of lives lived with passion. School Library Journal has called him "a current pacesetter who has put the finishing touches on the standards for storyographies." He lives in New York with his family.

www.booksbybrown.com

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