Brookland-Cayce High School and Barnes & Noble Booksellers are teaming up for a series of special events next month with a single goal: provide better books for the school’s 1,200 students.
Students, parents and alumni will be able to purchase books, calendars and other items online at the Barnes & Noble Forest Drive location and during a school book fair. A portion of the sale will be sent directly to BCHS for new book purchases.
And in this time of tight budgets, the needs have never been greater. The BCHS budget for library book purchases has not increased in ten years. The average book in the library is 20 years old.
Events include:
- On Dec. 10, the
Barnes & Noble Forest Drive (Richland Mall) location will hold a “Brookland-Cayce High School - An online book sale at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/. From December 10-15, customers who enter a special code when buying at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ will have 12 percent of the sales credited to BCHS.
- A book fair at the BCHS library December 8-9 a which 12 percent of purchases will go to the school.
“Proceeds from these sales will go directly to giving our students better books,” said Laura Sponhour, a media specialist at BCHS. “If you are planning on buying a book, calendar or other item this holiday season, we hope you will make that purchase during one of these special events and give our students a big boost.”
To have your in-store purchase credited to BCHS on Dec. 10, just tell the cashier you are a supporter of the BCHS Library. To buy online, go to http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ and enter the code 10344877 at checkout. The online and in-store fundraiser does not include gift cards, gift wrapping, magazine subscriptions or video games or online downloadable content.
The in-store sale will be from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble Richland Mall location, 3400 Forest Drive .
