The Leather Apron Club, Benjamin Franklin, his son Billy, and America's first circulating library
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The Leather Apron Club, Benjamin Franklin, his son Billy, and America's first circulating library
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eng
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fiction
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The Leather Apron Club
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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Benjamin Franklin, his son Billy, and America's first circulating library
Summary
A powerful celebration of libraries from master storyteller Jane Yolen. Benjamin Franklin introduces his son Billy to the Leather Apron Club, where it's love at first page. When Billy's father Benjamin Franklin announces that Billy and his lazy cousin James will soon have a tutor, Billy is initially dismayed. But his tutor awakens him to the power of story and books, and when Billy accompanies his father to the Leather Apron Club (which Franklin started in 1727), he decides to do more with his education and life. Best-selling author Jane Yolen introduces readers to the Leather Apron Club. Not only was the Club the first successful lending library in the United States-it also exists to this day as the Library Company of Philadelphia! Careful readers will notice that the story cleverly incorporates famous sayings from Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack, underscoring the lasting impact of words
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juvenile
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Benjamin Franklin, his son Billy, and America's first circulating library
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- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Family -- Juvenile literature
- Statesmen's children -- United States -- Biography
- Franklin, William, 1731-1813 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction
- Junto (Club : Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Juvenile literature
- Franklin, William, 1731-1813 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature
- Electronic books
- Books and reading -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Juvenile literature
- Books and reading -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Fiction
- Statesmen's children -- Biography -- Fiction
- Library Company of Philadelphia -- History -- Fiction
- Junto (Club : Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Fiction
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
- Library Company of Philadelphia -- History -- Juvenile literature
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Juvenile literature
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Family -- Fiction
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- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Family -- Juvenile literature
- Statesmen's children -- United States -- Biography
- Franklin, William, 1731-1813 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction
- Junto (Club : Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Juvenile literature
- Franklin, William, 1731-1813 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature
- Electronic books
- Books and reading -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Juvenile literature
- Books and reading -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Fiction
- Statesmen's children -- Biography -- Fiction
- Library Company of Philadelphia -- History -- Fiction
- Junto (Club : Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Fiction
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
- Library Company of Philadelphia -- History -- Juvenile literature
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Juvenile literature
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Family -- Fiction
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- Author1