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The Story of Electricity
The lights went out just after dinner. Maya had one page left, and the room was dark. Her father found a candle. The flame was small, and it moved when anyone walked past. Maya wanted the ceiling light back. A candle could save the page, but it was not the light she wanted.
They sat at the table, and her father told her how that ceiling light had become possible.
A long time ago, in Greece, a man named Thales rubbed a piece of amber with cloth. Amber is a hard yellow stone. After he rubbed it, the stone picked up tiny bits of dust. He had no lamp from that trick. He had a strange pull. Much later, the word electricity was taken from the Greek word for amber.
In 1752 people began to tell a story about Benjamin Franklin, in America.