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Ms. Scarfe from Springfield, MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Scarfe's classroom raised $428

Why Not Let the Students Choose?

My students need copies of interest grabbing young adult books in every genre to get them reading!

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Ms. Scarfe High School of Commerce
Springfield, MA Grades 9-12

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

I work in a wonderful high school that is struggling. My students live in an impoverished neighborhood and face many struggles. I teach English Language Arts to mostly ninth graders.

Many of the ninth graders in my class do not like to read or have trouble reading. The required reading in the curriculum, although great, is not for many of my diverse-minded students. I need to get them loving to read and as a result their test scores, success at school, and most importantly, their confidence will rise!

I have been putting together a classroom library that will knock the socks of this year's incoming freshman. Seeing so many books of high interest to them and covering so many backgrounds will show these students how reading can be very meaningful for them.

Letting students choose their own reading by having books that interest them will be very powerful. They will become stronger readers if they can be enticed to read. So many of my students will improve greatly academically from reading a wider variety of books. Perhaps the enthusiasm for reading will spill over to the required curriculum. Actually, with so much positivity put towards reading and the students' self esteem, I think they will become more active in their classwork.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

80 students impacted 4 donors
Ms. Scarfe High School of Commerce Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Springfield, MA View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

80 students impacted 4donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The City of Ember (Books of Ember Series #1) Jeanne DuPrau • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
The War of the Worlds: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic H. G. Wells • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Sun-Kissed (Smart Novels: Vocabulary) SparkNotes Editors, SparkNotes Staff • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
Mayan Mission: Another Mission. Another Country. Another Action-Packed Adventure: 1,000 Need-to-Know SAT Vocabulary Words Karen B. Chapman • Barnes and Noble $11.69 1 $11.69
Flocabulary: The Hip-Hop Approach to SAT-Level Vocabulary Building Blake Harrison, Alexander Rappaport, Foreword by Ann Marie Mulready • Barnes and Noble $17.05 1 $17.05
Vampire Dreams (Smart Novels: Vocabulary) SparkNotes Editors, SparkNotes Staff • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
S.C.A.M. (Smart Novels: Vocabulary) SparkNotes Editors • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
Head Over Heels (Smart Novels: Vocabulary) SparkNotes Editors • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
Rave New World (Smart Novels: Vocabulary) SparkNotes Editors • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games Series #1) Suzanne Collins • Barnes and Noble $11.69 1 $11.69
Milkweed Jerry Spinelli • Barnes and Noble $6.75 1 $6.75
Sold Patricia Mccormick • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Forged by Fire Sharon M. Draper • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Darkness Before Dawn Sharon M. Draper • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Just Another Hero Sharon M. Draper • Barnes and Noble $13.59 1 $13.59
Battle of Jericho Sharon M. Draper • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
November Blues Sharon M. Draper • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two Joseph Bruchac • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Contender Robert Lipsyte • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Before We Were Free Julia Alvarez • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
A Matter of Trust (Bluford High Series #2) Anne Schraff, Paul Langan (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Secrets in the Shadows (Bluford High Series #3) Anne Schraff, Paul Langan (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Someone to Love Me (Bluford High Series #4) Anne Schraff, Paul Langan (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Lost and Found (Bluford High Series #1) Anne Schraff • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Cuba 15 Nancy Osa • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Why Does the Coqui Sing? Barbara Garland Polikoff • Barnes and Noble $15.25 1 $15.25
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood Benjamin Alire Saenz • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Finding Our Way: Stories Rene Saldana • Barnes and Noble $14.40 1 $14.40
When I Was Puerto Rican Esmeralda Santiago • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Bodega Dreams: A Novel Ernesto Quinonez, Ernesto Quiinonez • Barnes and Noble $11.16 1 $11.16
Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings--- An Anthology Roberto Santiago, Roberto Santiago (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $14.35 1 $14.35
Teen Ink, Our Voices, Our Visions: Today's Teenagers Sharing Thoughts On: Friends, Family, Fitting In, Challenges, Loss, Memories, Love, Heroes Stephanie H. Meyer (Compiler), John Meyer (Compiler) • Barnes and Noble $11.65 1 $11.65
Teen Ink: What Matters John Meyer, John Meyer (Editor), Peggy Veljkovic (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $11.65 1 $11.65
Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, Paolo Lamanna (Illustrator), Giovanni Rigano (Illustrator), Adapted by Andrew Donkin • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie Jordan Sonnenblick • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Series #1) Anthony Horowitz • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19

Materials cost

$306.14

Vendor shipping charges

 $30.61

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.59

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$350.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.91

Total project goal

$427.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $427.29

4 Donors

-$427.29

Donations toward project cost

-$350.38

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$76.91

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