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Ms. Chen from San Francisco, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Chen's classroom raised $572

Feed The Need: Fantasy Books for Book-Hungry Students!

My students need 17 sets of fantasy books to engage in high quality conversations via book clubs.

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Ms. Chen Sherman Elementary School
San Francisco, CA Grades 3-5

I am in the fortunate position of teaching reading and writing to a pair of book-hungry fourth grade classes. For the first time at our school site, we are implementing the reading workshop approach to literacy. In the short span of time since the school year has started, we've seen how this approach has fueled the hunger for reading in our students! It has been amazing! Where we used to have to twist arms to read daily, students now need to be wrenched from the books in their hands. We've determined that this is, in fact, a GOOD problem to have. They are now reading "just right" books at their level where they can practice strategies that good readers use to deeply comprehend text.

Did you know that just 5 minutes in conversation about what one reads can skyrocket comprehension? Now midyear, we are shifting our reading workshops to begin book clubs. We want to take our students out of this world through the genre of fantasy. Our students love to read with classmates and have a natural tendency to want to share and discuss stories. Through these book clubs, they will learn how to talk effectively, be taught strategies to help them understand elements of fantasy, and read with their minds on fire. So what is stopping us on this literary journey, you ask? BOOKS!!! Books, books, books! We lack sets of books in the fantasy genre at various levels for such a large number of students.

It is at this time that we humbly ask for multiple copies of 17 titles of fantasy books across a variety of reading levels.

Please help feed the insatiable need for these book-hungry fourth graders! They want to travel to new worlds with book clubs, to read, to talk, and to think deeper than ever before!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

70 students impacted 11 donors
Ms. Chen Sherman Elementary School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

San Francisco, CA View local requests

More than half 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

70 students impacted 11donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Trek Ann Jonas, Ann Jonas (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 4 $25.16
Redwall (Redwall #1) Brian Jacques, Troy Howell (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.98 4 $23.92
Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus Trilogy Series #1) Jonathan Stroud • Barnes and Noble $8.09 4 $32.36
Coraline Neil Gaiman, Dave Mckean (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 4 $25.16
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident Eoin Colfer • Barnes and Noble $7.19 4 $28.76
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (Underland Chronicles Series #2) Suzanne Collins • Barnes and Noble $6.29 4 $25.16
Boggart Susan Cooper, Omar Rayyan (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.39 4 $21.56
Secret of Platform 13 Eva Ibbotson, Sue Porter (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 4 $25.16
Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles Series #1) Suzanne Collins • Barnes and Noble $6.29 4 $25.16
Poppy Avi, Brian Floca (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.39 4 $21.56
Awake and Dreaming Kit Pearson • Barnes and Noble $7.19 4 $28.76
The Unusual Suspects (Sisters Grimm Series #2) Michael Buckley, Peter Ferguson (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 4 $25.00
The Fairy Tale Detectives (Sisters Grimm Series #1) Michael Buckley, Peter Ferguson (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 4 $25.00
Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer • Barnes and Noble $5.39 4 $21.56
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia Series #2) C. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $3.98 2 $7.96
Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Stories Jane Yolen • Barnes and Noble $6.29 2 $12.58
Paper Bag Princess Robert N. Munsch, Michael Martchenko (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 2 $12.50

Materials cost

$387.32

Vendor shipping charges

 $38.73

Sales tax

 $28.08

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.81

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$468.94

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$102.94

Total project goal

$571.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $571.88

10 Donors

-$560.90

Donations toward project cost

-$468.94

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$91.96

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.98

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