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Mrs. Karnes from Morgantown WV is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Class Up Our Library With Award Winners, US Cellular!

My students need high-interest texts to hook them initially, and they need award-winning books to help them stretch their reading and writing abilities.

  • $960 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students begin every class period by reading silently. We confer about their books, reading strategies, and goals. By the end of the year, I want them to become lifelong readers. To do that, I need to put amazing, varied books in their hands.

My students are a camouflaged bunch, coming to class every day in the basement of our hundred-year-old, run-down, rural school with smiles on their faces.

They are not Honors students, generally don't enjoy reading, and most do not want to go to college. However, they are hard workers who are willing to open their minds to the possibility of a future as a reader, learner, and scholar. If I can transform them into lifelong lovers of literacy, their lives will be enriched beyond their wildest imaginations as books will open doors they never thought to approach.

My Project

My curriculum consists solely of independent reading novels. While we do have a school library and a local public library, they do not often have the books I recommend to my students--award-winners, high-interest young adult literature, graphic novels, poetry anthologies, or literary nonfiction. As a result, it falls to me to provide these books to my students. With this grant, I will be able to help my students grow exponentially as readers on a daily basis by putting these excellent books into their hands.

This project will completely revolutionize my classroom.

Last year, US Cellular awarded me a grant consisting mostly of high-interest texts. Those books hooked my students as readers. This year, I'm asking for more difficult, complex, long, award-winning books. Those books will help them stretch their abilities and grow into sophisticated young readers.

Mrs. Karnes
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Decoded • AKJ Books $25.55 1 $25.55
The Pacific • AKJ Books $19.67 1 $19.67
Lost Memory of Skin • AKJ Books $18.97 1 $18.97
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital • Amazon $18.95 1 $18.95
PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives • Amazon $18.87 1 $18.87
The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) (National Book Critics Circle Award: Fiction Finalists) • Amazon $18.00 1 $18.00
Everything I Never Told You: A Novel • Amazon $17.04 1 $17.04
Humans of New York • Amazon $16.90 1 $16.90
Thank You for Your Service • Amazon $16.45 1 $16.45
Spit Back a Boy • Amazon $15.26 1 $15.26
Why We Broke Up • AKJ Books $14.60 1 $14.60
Hate List Jennifer Brown • AKJ Books $7.30 1 $7.30
The Walking Dead 6: This Sorrowful Life • AKJ Books $13.49 1 $13.49
The Gift of Rain: A Novel • Amazon $13.23 1 $13.23
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism • Amazon $13.18 1 $13.18
Everybody Sees the Ants • AKJ Books $13.14 1 $13.14
Through My Eyes • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
All the Truth That''s in Me • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
Lies My Teacher Told Me • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
The Sky is Everywhere Jandy Nelson • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
Openly Straight • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
Too Much Happiness (Vintage International) • Amazon $12.41 1 $12.41
The Nazi Hunters • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
Counting by 7s • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
Golden Boy • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever • Amazon $12.21 1 $12.21
Voluntary Madness: Lost and Found in the Mental Healthcare System • Amazon $12.12 1 $12.12
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013 • Amazon $11.94 1 $11.94
Columbine • AKJ Books $11.68 1 $11.68
Destined to Witness • AKJ Books $11.67 1 $11.67
Maus II: A Survivor''s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began • AKJ Books $11.64 1 $11.64
The Forever War Dexter Filkins • AKJ Books $11.64 1 $11.64
A Clockwork Orange • Amazon $11.43 1 $11.43
11/22/63: A Novel • Amazon $11.29 1 $11.29
The Best American Essays 2013 • Amazon $11.18 1 $11.18
We Were Liars • Amazon $11.06 1 $11.06
The Best American Sports Writing 2013 • Amazon $10.99 1 $10.99
The Best American Travel Writing 2013 • Amazon $10.98 1 $10.98
The Orphan Master''s Son • AKJ Books $10.95 1 $10.95
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Louise Er • AKJ Books $10.94 1 $10.94
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics • Amazon $10.49 1 $10.49
The Talk-Funny Girl • AKJ Books $10.22 1 $10.22
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man • Amazon $10.12 1 $10.12
Americanah • Amazon $10.00 1 $10.00
Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall, Book 2) • Amazon $9.80 1 $9.80
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier • AKJ Books $9.49 1 $9.49
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel • Amazon $9.49 1 $9.49
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness • Amazon $9.28 1 $9.28
Start Something That Matters • Amazon $8.86 1 $8.86
A Monster Calls • AKJ Books $8.76 1 $8.76
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines Nic Sheff • AKJ Books $8.75 1 $8.75
I Am the Messenger • AKJ Books $8.02 1 $8.02
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Young Reader's Choice Award - Intermediate Division) • Amazon $7.35 1 $7.35
Jellicoe Road • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
The Maze Runner • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
The Queen of Water • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
A Really Awesome Mess • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Butter • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
The House of the Scorpion • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Steve Jobs • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
The Scorpio Races • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd Holly Black (Editor), • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
Boot Camp • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
Peak • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
Bluefish • AKJ Books $5.10 1 $5.10
One for the Murphys • AKJ Books $5.10 1 $5.10
Shooting Kabul • AKJ Books $5.10 1 $5.10

Materials cost

$773.91

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.61

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$815.52

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$143.92

Total project goal

$959.44

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $959.44

1 Donor

-$959.44

Donations toward project cost

-$815.52

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$143.92

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