Books to Prisons: Usborne Books Online Book Fair

[Courtesy of Usborne Books] I invite you to support the Usborne Books Online Book Fair to benefit The DC Area Books to Prisons Project **Read to the end of this email and you might win a free book!** Go to http://www.ubah.com/BF20736 to make your purchase! There is even a wish list! Matthew 25:44-45: "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'" The DC Books to Prisons Project provides a critical link between citizens who are incarcerated and those outside prison walls by sending donated reading material to prisoners. For every 2 books purchased, my online Usborne Book Fair at http://www.ubah.com/BF20736 will earn one free book to be sent to DC area inmates who need reading materials. This is critical because: *Over 70% of adult prison inmates can not read above a 4th grade level. *85% of children in the juvenile court system can not read. *When inmates learn to read, only 15% of them are ever arrested again. Lack Of Reading Skills Affect: *Healthcare - low literacy averages $73 million per year in direct costs. *Delinquency and violence. *Income & Employment - 75% of unemployed adults have reading and writing difficulties. You Can Make A Difference! Here are suggested donations to DC Area Books to Prisons - you can purchase books like these on the Usborne Book Fair web site http://www.ubah.com/BF20736, or directly from me (call 703-406-0651). Nonfiction books are the greatest need, and we need books at all reading levels. Please consider dictionaries (English, Spanish-English), math books, books about American Indians, Mayans, or Aztecs, books about drawing or art, books about how things work, science books, history books (especially Black, military, or classical ), books about learning Spanish, and atlases For DC Area Books To Prisons information, see their web site http://ejusa.org/bookstoprisons The Book Fair will close Saturday night, 3/24/2007 at midnight. **You read to the end! Send me an email with the subject line "I read to the end!" and I will enter you into the drawing to win a free book at the end of the book fair! Thank you for your support of the book fair! Jane Jenness Usborne Books Supervisor 703-406-0651 [email protected] www.UsborneJane.com