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This book combines biography, history, and science to recount the life of Thomas Alva Edison, from his mid-19th century boyhood, to the establishment of his invention factory in Menlo Park, NJ, to his invention of the first electric light bulb. It has easy text, large photographs and illustrations, and the interactive experiments, will captivate and inform young readers. You will learn about the life of Edison, and the nature of electricity. An at-home experiment will allow young readers to have their own Edison moment. A timeline and index provide supplementary materials.