Picture Book · Ages 5–8 · 2001
Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares
By Frank Murphy, Richard Walz (Illustrator)
A clever founding father invents a number puzzle that still stumps kids today.
48 pages· 1,230 words· Est. 10 min read-aloud
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Summary: Ben Franklin was a printer, an inventor and one of the wittiest founding fathers, and he even kept a pet squirrel. This Step 4 reader tells his story, including how he created the magic square: a box of nine numbers where every line of three, even the diagonals, adds up to the same total.


