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Please retain your official donation receipt for income tax purposes. Bernieā€™s Book Bank did not provide you with any goods or services in exchange for this gift, so the full value of your gift is tax-deductible. Bernieā€™s Book Bank is a 501 (c) (3) organization as determined by the Internal Revenue Service. I.R.S. Exemption No/EIN: 27-0914453.

Summer Book Drive:
1 in 8 books we pack for children is donated by someone in the communityā€”someone like you.

Join us in collecting new and gently used books to help fuel book distribution to over 315,000 local children.

Ways to Help:
šŸ“šDonate Your Gently Used Books:
Clear your shelves and give your childrenā€™s books a second life! Drop off gently used children's books at any of our local drop-off partner locations or at Bernie's Book Bank in Lake Bluff.

šŸ“£Organize a Book Drive:
Rally your school, workplace, neighborhood, or faith community to collect books.Ā Check out our Hours for Books Program, where students can earn 2 service hours for every 100 books collected!

šŸŽGive the Gift of Reading:
At Bernieā€™s Book Bank, we source, process, and distribute free, quality books to children who need them most for less than $2.00 a book. Just $16.00 provides a child with a bag of 8 high-quality books to read, love, and call their own.

Will you join us?

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