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The Leather Apron Club: Benjamin Franklin, His Son Billy & America's First Circulating Library

By Jane Yolen, Wendell Minor (Illustrator)
Hardcover
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By Jane Yolen, Wendell Minor (Illustrator)

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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 h...

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