A LibraryLibrary Comes to Town

GenreComprehension

Skills and Strategy

Historical fi ction

Theme

Sequence

Ask Questions

ISBN 0-328-13229-2

Think and Share Read Together

1. What is the big idea of this story? 2. What questions would you ask Ben

Franklin about his idea for a library?

3. On a separate sheet of paper, write the words from the story that begin with un-. Use the words in a sentence.

4. Benjamin Franklin started the first library in the United States. How do people use libraries today? Fill in a web like this one.

How people use libraries

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A LibraryLibrary Comes to Town

by Juan Lesterillustrated by David Shelton

Editorial Offices: Glenview, Illinois Parsippany, New Jersey New York, New YorkSales Offices: Needham, Massachusetts Duluth, Georgia Glenview, Illinois

Coppell, Texas Ontario, California Mesa, Arizona

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Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions.

Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education.

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ISBN: 0-328-13229-2

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Jane and her father looked in a bookstore window. Father sighed.

Why are you unhappy? asked Jane.

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Oh, child, I love to read all different kinds of books, answered Father. But books cost a lot of money.

Are we too poor to buy books? asked Jane.

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No, but we are not rich enough to buy most books, said Father.

I wish there were a way that everyone could have books to read, said Jane.

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A week later, Jane was helping her brothers repaint some old chairs. She could hear some neighbors talking.

What she heard made her happy. She went running to tell her father.

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Father! she cried. A man named Ben Franklin is going to open a library. Now even people who are not rich can borrow books and carry them home to read!

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Read Together

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Ben Franklin opened up the first public library in the United States. This was more than 200 years ago. He wanted to make sure that everyone could have books to read. He also came up with other firsts.

Ben Franklin invented swimming fins, a stove, and a special kind of reading glasses. All these are things that people still use today.

Ben Franklin

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Think and Share Read Together

1. What is the big idea of this story? 2. What questions would you ask Ben

Franklin about his idea for a library?

3. On a separate sheet of paper, write the words from the story that begin with un-. Use the words in a sentence.

4. Benjamin Franklin started the first library in the United States. How do people use libraries today? Fill in a web like this one.

How people use libraries

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