Includes Franklin in the Dark; Hurry Up, Franklin; Franklin Fibs; Franklin is Bossy; Franklin Goes to School; Franklin's School Play; Franklin's Class Trip; and Franklin's Neighborhood.

Collection of four Franklin books.

Capturing the essence of the origin and evolution of the so-called "degeneracy debates," over whether the flora and fauna of America (including Native Americans) were naturally weaker and feebler than species elsewhere in the world, this book chronicles Thomas Jefferson's efforts to counter French conceptions of American degeneracy, culminating in his sending of a stuffed moose to Buffon