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Describes the life and many notable accomplishments of the American printer, businessman, inventor, community leader, and statesman.

Biography of Benjamin Franklin focusing on his experiments and inventions involving electricity, and examining his improvements to the everyday objects of his time.

A biography of the scientist whose many inventions include the Polaroid camera.

Presents Jacqueline Briggs Martin's "Snowflake Bentley," the story of the self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

Examines the life of Isaac Newton, the seventeenth-century English scientist who formulated the theory of gravity.

Presents an illustrated account of the life and achievements of founding father, Benjamin Franklin; and examines the contributions he made and the legacy he left behind.

Describes the research that Samuel Marshall and his students are doing on tarantulas, including the largest spider on earth, the Goliath bird eating tarantula.

Presents a picture-book biography of Albert Einstein, focusing on his oddness as a baby and child, and his disinterest in school, and discussing the significance of his discoveries in physics.

Ms. Frizzle and her students go to the new science museum to get ideas for their science fair projects, but a cardboard bus display provides Ms.

An account of the life of Leonardo da Vinci, with an emphasis on his research and inventions in the field of science.

An account of the life and scientific theories of the famous physicist Albert Einstein.

Contains twenty articles that provide accounts of scientists and discoveries that changed the course of world history, from the invention of gunpowder in 1280, to the landing of the first men on the moon in 1969.

Presents the life of the seventeenth-century scientist who made predictions about the comet which bears his name and discusses many other important scientific contributions he made.

A simple biography of the French scientist who proved the existence of germs and their connection with disease.

Tash, Zak, and their mysterious Uncle Hoole find themselves in a dangerous situation when they journey to Kiva, a planet on the galaxy's Outer Rim, to make sure the evil Borborygmus Gog's Project Starscream has really been destroyed.