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Ms. Z.'s classroom raised $458

Creating a Classroom Library from Scratch (Part 3)

My students need a high-interest classroom independent reading library featuring their favorite genres: fantasy and realistic fiction.

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Ms. Z.
Grades 9-12

My Students

I am in the process of building an independent reading library for my ninth-grade classroom; I know from experience that high-interest, well-written realistic fiction and fantasy novels for young adults fly off the shelves and come back with rave reviews from even the most reluctant readers.

My students are (mostly) 9th grade boys, and a few girls, at a career and technical high school specializing in automotive trades and business.

Many, if not most of them, need to read more materials, especially high-interest texts, on their reading level in order to build stamina and progress to higher reading aptitude.

My Project

Independent reading books supplement the texts that we read as a class and provide students with choice, variety and memorable reading experiences. I am imagining bringing the many novels requested in this project into class and seeing the looks on the faces of my students as I show them the fresh new books available for them to borrow and share. Independent reading will be a requirement in my class, but it will also be an extra credit option for the more ambitious students.

Your donation to this project will reach students who love to read and students who haven't had access to enough engaging reading material to know that books that speak to them are "out there" and available.

A classroom library filled with books that a predominantly male student population wants to read is a beautiful thing: a few of my students do go to the school and public libraries on their own, but the vast majority of them do not, making a strong classroom library a vital resource.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

100 students impacted 5 donors
Ms. Z. Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

100 students impacted 5donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row • AKJ Books $14.03 1 $14.03
I Am Number Four Pittacus Lore • AKJ Books $14.03 1 $14.03
Keys to the Repository (Blue Bloods Series) Melissa de la Cr • AKJ Books $11.69 1 $11.69
Beautiful Darkness Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl • AKJ Books $14.03 1 $14.03
City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments Series #2) Cassandra C • AKJ Books $8.57 1 $8.57
Hidden Talents • AKJ Books $4.67 1 $4.67
City of Bones • AKJ Books $8.57 1 $8.57
City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments Series #3) Cassandra C • AKJ Books $8.57 1 $8.57
Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices Series #1) Cassandra C • AKJ Books $15.59 1 $15.59
Chaos • AKJ Books $7.79 1 $7.79
Blood on My Hands • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
Kendra Coe Booth • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Streams of Babel • AKJ Books $13.26 1 $13.26
The Uninvited Tim Wynne-Jones • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Ransom • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Bec (Demonata Series #4) Darren Shan • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Dope Sick Walter Dean Myers • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
Riot Walter Dean Myers • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
The Cruisers Walter Dean Myers • AKJ Books $12.47 1 $12.47
Tyrell • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Kendra (HB) • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
Birth of a Killer (The Saga of Larten Crepsley Series) Darre • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
Blood Beast (Demonata Series #5) Darren Shan • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Broken China • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Can''t Hold Me Down Lyah B. LeFlore, DL Warfield (Illustrator • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Dark Calling (Demonata Series #9) Darren Shan • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Freaks and Revelations Davida Wills Hurwin • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
Hell''s Heroes (The Demonata Series #10) Darren Shan • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
Heavy Metal And You • AKJ Books $6.23 1 $6.23
How Beautiful the Ordinary • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
If I Were Your Boyfriend (Kimani Tru Series) Earl Sewell • AKJ Books $7.79 1 $7.79
Lord Loss (Demonata Series #1) Darren Shan • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Nailed • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Bang • AKJ Books $7.76 1 $7.76
Suckerpunch David Hernandez • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25

Materials cost

$348.29

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.22

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$388.51

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$68.56

Total project goal

$457.07

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $457.07

5 Donors

-$457.07

Donations toward project cost

-$388.51

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$68.56

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