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Becker, Cynthia Simmelink

Lights On!: Ike Hoover Electrifies the White House

40 pp. | Filter | October, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-86541-244-6 $19.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Benjamin Hummel. In 1891, during Benjamin Harrison's presidency, the President's House (later renamed the White House) was wired for electricity by Thomas Edison's nineteen-year-old apprentice Ike Hoover, who ultimately stayed on the job for forty-two years. Rather than a biography, this is informative but pedestrian historical fiction, with invented dialogue and caricaturish sepia illustrations. End matter includes notes on the historical characters. Reading list, websites. Glos.
Reviewer: Christina Dorr

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