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Mr. Ostlund from Everson, WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Truth Is Stranger (And More Interesting) Than Fiction

My students need 4 copies each of 5 award-winning nonfiction books, including "Charles and Emma" to "Almost Astronauts".

  • $427 goal

This project expired on September 30, 2010.

This project expired on September 30, 2010.

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Mr. Ostlund Nooksack Valley High School
Everson, WA Grades 9-12

My Students

Truth can indeed be stranger than fiction...and oftentimes more stunning, more heart-wrenching and unbelievable. Having award-winning nonfiction on our classroom library shelves will stir the imagination of my students.

In our high-need, diverse school district, much value is placed on high quality instruction and differentiation to meet the wide range of our students' needs.

Reading great, diverse literature that challenges students will help them prepare for college and citizenship. Our students can be voracious readers when the opportunity presents itself, but we have to work hard to keep current, engaging, and culturally relevant books on the shelves of our classroom libraries.

My Project

The American Library Association's list for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults provides the content of this project. Multiple copies of these amazing, true-life stories will allow students to share in their reading (and disbelief) as they encounter the absurdities and obscurities of everyday life recounted in these books.

Contributing to this project will give our students a chance to challenge their thinking, to see literature as a human experience and share in it with others.

The titles are current, relevant, and engaging for a wide variety of readers and interests.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

120 students impacted
Mr. Ostlund Nooksack Valley High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Everson, WA 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

120 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith Deborah Heiligman • Barnes and Noble $12.95 4 $51.80
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Phillip Hoose • Barnes and Noble $13.64 4 $54.56
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream Margaret A. Weitekamp, Foreword by Margaret A. Weitekamp • Barnes and Noble $17.09 4 $68.36
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum Ray Fenwick, Ray Fenwick (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.98 4 $51.92
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M. Walker • Barnes and Noble $19.61 4 $78.44

Materials cost

$305.08

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $26.69

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.58

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$371.35

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$55.49

Total project goal

$426.84

Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.

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