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Philadelphia Program Targeting Readers Both Young And Old Now Underway

By Justin Udo

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - One Book, One Philadelphia kicked off its annual push of reading, literacy, and libraries.

The Parkway Central Library played host Thursday night as the program celebrates its 13th season

"It's a city wide reading of a single book," explains Sandy Horrocks with the Free Library of Philadelphia.

This year, the program is encouraging reading through the book Orphan Train.

"It's a wonderful story about a part of American history that many of us didn't know anything about, which was when immigrant children came primarily through Ellis Island and into New York," says Horrocks, who says this is a good team building activity for the whole city:

"It is so terrific to have everybody in our city, in our community coming together around a single book and talking about the themes and the things they learned in that book."

The program hosts a number of different events and it runs through May 19th.

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