To the Future, Ben Franklin!
- by Mary Pope Osborne
- Early Chapter Book
- Fantasy
- Children
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- To the Future, Ben Franklin! by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, July 2019).
Jack and Annie bring a rather fainthearted and confused Ben Franklin to their own time, hoping to convince him to sign the Constitution.
—Michael Main
Morgan’s telling us to take Ben to Frog Creek. To our time.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1700 to 1799: The US Constitutional Convention, 1787
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: “How about 2019?” said Annie. This is the first time we’ve spotted a present-day date in the series, so we’ll assume all the books are set around 2019.
- Timeline Models
- Single Consistent Timeline: Within the series, anything the kids do seems to fit known history rather than change it.
- Time Travel Methods
- Themes
- True Histories: the true history of how Ben Franklin was convinced to sign the Constitution
- Real-World Tags
- Fictional Tags
- Morgan le Fay: She appears in person at the end and meets Ben.
- Groupings
Variants
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- To the Future, Ben Franklin! by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, July 2019).
- audio reading.
To the Future, Ben Franklin! by Mary Pope Osborne (Listening Library, July 2019).