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Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/06/2024
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location
Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center
Categories
U-C BOOKS TO PRISONERS SPRING BOOK SALE BENEFITS FAMILIES INSIDE AND OUT
SATURDAY APRIL, 6, 2024, 9 AM – 5 PM
URBANA CHAMPAIGN INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER, 202 S. BROADWAY, URBANA.
For one day only, you can shop over 8,000 gently used books — most subjects, genres, including comic books, young adult fiction, textbooks and children’s books–something for the whole family–and for far below thrift store prices. And you will be helping other families at the same time.
While there will be a few specially marked books, all hardcovers are $2.00; trade paperbacks, $1.00; pocket paperbacks .50; T-shirts, $25 and tote bags are $7. The Independent Media Center has an accessible entrance. Cash, checks and credit cards are welcome, and carry-out service will be provided.
Proceeds go toward sending books to incarcerated people, many of whom are parents who write for math books to help their children with homework during visits, they write for Dr. Suess to read to their children over the phone, they write for art books to to learn to make birthday and greeting cards, among the hundreds of book requests received each month.
Proceeds also allow Books to Prisoners to run a small lending library in the Champaign County Jail (one of the few in the state) and helps keep good young adult books oi the library at the Country Juvenile Detention Center.
For more information about this event, email: Rachel Rasmussen, rachel@books2prisoners.org website: www.books2prisoners.org