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Ms. Ferrales from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help To Shape Global Readers!

My students need a library of 37 engaging world literature books, from "Anna Karenina" to "Cry, the Beloved Country".

  • $536 goal

This project expired on September 3, 2008.

This project expired on September 3, 2008.

I teach 11th grade Global history in a New York public school. My students are predominantly African American and Latino. While our high school holds its students to high standards, we have limited resources.

Our classroom has one class set of world history textbooks, but it is lacking the cozy, academic atmosphere provided by a bookcase full of interesting and relevant books. My students often tell me about the books they read at home, and ask what I'm reading outside of school. I would love to start a small classroom library in order provide students access to (free) interesting reads that cover a multitude of cultures, nations, and personal experiences.

My class needs a set of various historical fiction texts. I plan to use these to start a classroom lending library, from which students will be able to check out books for their own enjoyment and/or to better develop class projects and understanding of major class concepts. I firmly believe as my students read more, it will improve their vocabulary and critical thinking skills.

Your help will ensure that my students have the opportunity to enrich their own learning and deepen their understandings of various historical events and perspectives. These books will encourage a spirit of academia and thoughtful discussion that should be present in all classrooms.

Ms. Ferrales Urban Assembly Law & Justice Grades 9-12

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More than three‑quarters of 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

110 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography Sidney Poitier • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Selected Stories of O. Henry (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) O. Henry, Victoria Blake (Editor), Victoria Blake (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $5.35 1 $5.35
The Secret Garden (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Robinson (Illustrator), Jill Muller (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $5.35 1 $5.35
Pride and Prejudice (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Jane Austen, Carol Howard (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $4.45 1 $4.45
The Prince and Other Writings (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Niccolo Machiavelli, Wayne A. Rebhorn (Translator), Wayne A. Rebhorn (Introduction), George Stade • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
Jane Eyre (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Charlotte Bronte, George Stade (Editor), Susan Ostrov Weisser (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $4.45 1 $4.45
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Joseph Conrad, A. Michael Matin (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $4.45 1 $4.45
Frankenstein (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Karen Karbiener (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $3.55 1 $3.55
Dracula (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Bram Stoker, Brooke Allen (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $4.45 1 $4.45
Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur Doyle, Kyle Freeman, Kyle Freeman (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Leo Tolstoy, Constance Black Garnett, Constance Garnett (Translator), Amy Mandelker (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $8.05 1 $8.05
Knots Nuruddin Farah • Barnes and Noble $5.98 1 $5.98
Beasts of No Nation Uzodinma Iweala • Barnes and Noble $4.98 1 $4.98
Cry, The Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club) Alan Paton • Barnes and Noble $13.50 1 $13.50
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
What Is the What Dave Eggers • Barnes and Noble $12.76 1 $12.76
War and Peace (Pevear / Volokhonsky Translation) Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $29.60 1 $29.60
The World Without Us Alan Weisman • Barnes and Noble $19.96 1 $19.96
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah • Barnes and Noble $15.40 1 $15.40
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini • Barnes and Noble $18.16 1 $18.16
Cold Mountain Charles Frazier • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
English Patient Michael Ondaatje • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway • Barnes and Noble $13.50 1 $13.50
After the Genocide: A Doctor's Nightmare in Rwanda Dale L. Williams • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Under the Fifth Sun Earl Shorris, Shorris • Barnes and Noble $10.75 1 $10.75
Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
World Without End Ken Follett • Barnes and Noble $24.50 1 $24.50
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Martin Puchner, Martin Puchner (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $5.35 1 $5.35
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz • Barnes and Noble $19.96 1 $19.96
Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer • Barnes and Noble $0.00 1 $0.00
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garc a M rquez, Gregory Rabassa, Gregory Rabassa (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
The Three Musketeers (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Alexandre Dumas, Barbara T. Cooper (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $8.05 1 $8.05
Siddhartha (Barnes & Noble Classics) Hermann Hesse, Rika Lesser (Translator), Robert A.F. Thurman (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $5.35 1 $5.35
Sense and Sensibility (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Jane Austen, Laura Engel, Laura Engel (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $4.45 1 $4.45
Moby-Dick (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Herman Melville, George Stade, Carl F. Hovde, Carl F. Hovde (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
King Solomon's Mines (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) H. Rider Haggard, Benjamin Ivry (Introduction), Noted by Benjamin Ivry • Barnes and Noble $4.45 1 $4.45

Materials cost

$375.13

Vendor shipping charges

 $37.51

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.38

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$439.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$96.37

Total project goal

$535.37

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