Robert Fulton: American Inventor is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.8 and Literacy.L.3.2g. Steamboat inventor Robert Fulton’s life is examined in this book with full-page illustrations and narrative nonfiction text. A timeline of Fulton’s life is included. This book should be paired with Robert Fulton Invents the Steamboat (9781477726037) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.