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

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Rejuvenate Our Library (& Our Imaginations!)

My students need 31 box sets of exciting, kid-friendly book series like "Little House on the Prairie", "Boxcar Children", and "Gossip Girl" to get them addicted to reading.

  • $956 goal

This project expired on August 1, 2010.

This project expired on August 1, 2010.

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Ms. Chung Urban Assembly Math & Science
Bronx, NY Grades 6-8

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.

My Students

The worst thing in the world for an English teacher to hear are the words "We have no good books in our library." As students in a public, underfunded urban school, my kids suffer from a severe lack of basic resources like books. As a result, my students are often intimidated by reading.

I teach seventh grade humanities, in a school filled with some of the most heartbreakingly inspiring children in the world.

Nearly 94% of my students qualify for free lunch and all of them are in need of as much extra support and help as they can get. My students are diverse in background and complex in mind and spirit. They believe deeply in friendship, brotherhood, fairness, and heart. They have personally experienced how difficult life can be. The box sets that I have chosen embody their many different reading levels, interests, hopes, and fears. These are novels that my students will believe in and see themselves within the characters. These are novels that many of of us grew up with when we were younger and remember so fondly. Most of all, these are novels that will allow my students to escape from the barren coldness of the real world into an imaginary world of magic.

My Project

My students need box sets of book series that ignite their imaginations and spark their love of reading. My school does not have the funding needed to update classroom libraries. The books that we currently have are falling apart and antiquated. There is not enough variety to really encompass the many reading levels of my students - many of my students find themselves either reading a book too hard or a book too easy. Even worse, many of my students often struggle with relating to the characters in these novels and become extremely frustrated with the language. By receiving box sets, I can truly get my students addicted to reading. I want my students to be able to fall in love with reading - to be so involved in a book during independent reading time that they cannot put it down. I want my students to beg for more time to read because they want to know what will happen next in their books so badly. I want my students to feel that the people in their book are like their friends.

With your generous donations, you will be able to inflame my students into a love of reading and, most importantly, a love of books.

With literacy rates scaling well below grade level in many districts across America, access to books grows more vital for our children. We cannot afford to raise a generation of illiterate children who are uncomfortable with books. Help my students become the exception to a world that denies them the right to resources that they so desperately need - give books!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

100 students impacted
Ms. Chung Urban Assembly Math & Science Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Bronx, NY 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

100 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Four Book Set Jeff Kinney • Barnes and Noble $34.32 1 $34.32
Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida Victor Martinez, Steve Scott (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Homeboyz Alan Lawrence Sitomer • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Alex Rider Collection Anthony Horowitz • Barnes and Noble $19.17 1 $19.17
Gossip Girl Collection (Boxed Set) Cecily von Ziegesar • Barnes and Noble $29.69 1 $29.69
Cirque du Freak, Volume 1 Darren Shan • Barnes and Noble $8.79 1 $8.79
Cirque du Freak, Volume 2: The Vampire's Assistant Darren Shan, Takahiro Arai (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.79 1 $8.79
Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid (Tales from the Crypt Series #8) David Gerrold • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
Boxcar Children Mysteries: The Boxcar Children; Surprise Island; The Yellow House Mystery; Mystery Ranch Gertrude Chandler Warner • Barnes and Noble $14.36 1 $14.36
Encyclopedia Brown Box Set Donald J. Sobol • Barnes and Noble $15.96 1 $15.96
Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set C. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $36.00 1 $36.00
Goosebumps Horrorland Boxed Set #1-4 (Goosebumps HorrorLand Series) R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $19.16 1 $19.16
The Clique Ah-Mazing Collector's Gift Set Lisi Harrison • Barnes and Noble $31.99 1 $31.99
Thirst No. 2: Phantom, Evil Thirst, and Creatures of Forever (Last Vampire Series) Christopher Pike • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
The Immortals Boxed Set (TP, 1-3): Evermore, Blue Moon, Shadowland Alyson Noel • Barnes and Noble $26.99 1 $26.99
Harry Potter Paperback Boxed Set (Books 1-7) J. K. Rowling • Barnes and Noble $56.50 1 $56.50
Warriors Box Set: Volumes 1 to 6 Erin Hunter • Barnes and Noble $29.59 1 $29.59
Little House (9-Book Boxed Set) Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $50.39 1 $50.39
Vampire Academy Box Set Richelle Mead • Barnes and Noble $21.59 1 $21.59
First Captain Underpants Collection: Boxed Set, Books 1 - 4 Dav Pilkey • Barnes and Noble $15.96 1 $15.96
Wrinkle in Time Quintet Boxed Set Madeleine L'Engle • Barnes and Noble $27.99 1 $27.99
Artemis Fowl Boxed Set: Books 1-5 Eoin Colfer • Barnes and Noble $28.00 1 $28.00
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit and the Complete Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King/Boxed Set J. R. R. Tolkien • Barnes and Noble $23.96 1 $23.96
The Mortal Instruments Boxed Set: City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass (Mortal Instruments Series) Cassandra Clare • Barnes and Noble $39.99 1 $39.99
The Ender Quartet Box Set: Ender's Game/Speaker for the Dead/Xenocide/Children of the Mind Orson Scott Card • Barnes and Noble $24.76 1 $24.76
Inheritance Cycle 3-Book Boxed Set (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr) Christopher Paolini • Barnes and Noble $53.96 1 $53.96
His Dark Materials Boxed Set: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman • Barnes and Noble $18.00 1 $18.00
Kit: An American Girl Boxed Set (American Girls Collection Series: Kit #1-6) Valerie Tripp, Susan McAliley (Illustrator), Walter Rane (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $31.96 1 $31.96
House of Night Boxed Set P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast • Barnes and Noble $23.39 1 $23.39
Spiderwick Chronicles: Box Set Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black • Barnes and Noble $39.99 1 $39.99
Choose Your Own Adventure Box Set #1: Books 1-6 R. A. Montgomery • Barnes and Noble $23.96 1 $23.96

Materials cost

$784.83

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.77

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$831.60

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$124.26

Total project goal

$955.86

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