Thomas Edison
Time For Kids is a great resource to learn nonfiction information from. I read a biography book that they wrote about Thomas Edison.
Thomas Edison was a great inventor and scientist. As a child Little Al, as he liked to be called. was always very curious, and wanted to know the answer to everything. He even got kicked out of school for asking to many questions! Little Al also got into lots of trouble. One time, Al was curious about how birds flew. He knew that birds ate worms, so he thought that might be how birds flew. Al mashed up some worms and water, and got a very trusting friend to drink it! It made her very sick, and it did not make her fly!
Al's parents were Nancy and Samuel. Since Al had gotten kicked out of school, Nancy started home-schooling Al. Al's parents did not mind that Al asked so many questions. They actually liked it. When Al learned to read, he loved to read. He liked to read about geography, science and he loved to read Shakespeare's plays.
When Al was about 12, he got a got a job in a train. Al's job was to walk up and dawn the aisle selling food. Al had a lot of time to spare after the people got of at Detroit.so he used that money to by notebooks. books, postcards, and newspaper which he sold on the way back. Al used the rest of the money to buy chemicals for experiments.
- Arushi
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