Thomas Alva Edison, Bringer of Light

by Carol Greene

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0516032135
• ISBN13: 9780516032139
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

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Thomas Alva Edison, The Bringer of Light

The book that I read is called, "Thomas Alva Edison, Bringer of Light." This book is a pretty good book. It is written by Carol Greene. It is about Thomas Edison's life as a child and when he became older. He was born in 1947 in Milan, Ohio. He started out as a little boy wanting to know about everything. He had 3 brothers and sisters. When he became 7 years old he got the scarlet fever. When he became 8 he started going to school and his teacher was very harsh so he didn't go there anymore. He then started setting up science experiments in his room, before he knew it his whole room was full of science experiments. When Edison was a teenager he became a newsboy for the Grand Trunk Railroad. In the summer of 1863 he started working in the Port Huron telegraph office. Then he wanted to go to Brazil because he had heard the telegraphers could earn lots of money there and then he made his way to New Orleans and someone told him how hard hi life would be as a telegrapher in Brazil, so he changed his mind. After that he started working with the financial wizards of the east. He invented many different things and then sent some of the money he had made to his family because they were in poor condition. He then owned his own company and lost so much money that the sheriff ordered to close down his business because he owed miney to so many people. Finally he then invented a telegraph that could send more than one message at a time. He also then came up with many other things and then had so much money he didn't know what to do with it. He then later in his life died in 1931. So I think this was a good book. I learned a lot about Edison that I didn't know. There were many interesting things. So, that is what I think about the book.