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Ms. Altsman from Memphis TN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Flooding Reluctant Readers with Great Books

My students need a classroom library of high-interest books to inspire them to love reading.

  • $430 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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

"Reading is boring." "But I don't read." "I hate reading!" These are the things many of my students say when they find out that they will be required to read over 2000 pages in my class. They feel this way about reading because they have not been exposed to great young adult literature in the past.

My 10th graders are amazing students who have lofty goals and dreams.

Unfortunately, they are at a striving school in a failing school district and have not received the education they need or deserve. Many of my students are learning English as a second language and even those who are not are generally 2 or more years below grade level in reading. In order for them to achieve their goals, my students need to be exposed to great books that will spark their imaginations and get them interested in reading. They need to be caught in a FLOOD of books!

My Project

I am working to build a classroom library full of rich, well-written books that will appeal to my students. With these books, I will be able to help students find things to read that are both interesting to them, and on a level that is accessible, but will also push them to be better readers. By being surrounded by a flood of good books, it is my hope that my students will begin to see all of the vast options they have to choose from in the world of literature and embrace reading as a meaningful part of their lives.

The achievement gap in this country is a literacy gap.

My students will never be able to compete with their more affluent peers if they do not significantly improve their reading skills. By providing my students with a classroom library full of interesting and inspiring books, you will be helping them close that gap and put them on the path toward success.

Ms. Altsman
Grades 9-12

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Holes Louis Sachar • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
Hush Jacqueline Woodson • Barnes and Noble $6.83 1 $6.83
Make Lemonade (Make Lemonade Trilogy #1) Virginia Euwer Wolff • Barnes and Noble $6.83 1 $6.83
This Full House (Make Lemonade Trilogy Series #3) Virginia Euwer Wolff • Barnes and Noble $12.30 1 $12.30
True Believer (Make Lemonade Trilogy #2) Virginia Euwer Wolff, Russell Gordon, Russell Gordon (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.54 1 $8.54
Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
Nothing But The Truth Avi • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
Rules of the Road Joan Bauer • Barnes and Noble $6.83 1 $6.83
Speak Laurie Halse Anderson • Barnes and Noble $6.84 1 $6.84
The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 Christopher Paul Curtis • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea Sebastian Junger • Barnes and Noble $9.53 1 $9.53
Heaven Is a Playground, Third Edition Rick Telander • Barnes and Noble $12.95 1 $12.95
Moves Make the Man Bruce Brooks • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Ben Carson, Cecil Murphey • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High Melba Pattillo Beals, Julie Rubenstein (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $10.26 1 $10.26
The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People Nikki Giovanni, George Ford (Illustrator), Foreword by Virginia Hamilton • Barnes and Noble $8.89 1 $8.89
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl Joyce Carol Oates • Barnes and Noble $7.68 1 $7.68
Buried Onions Gary Soto • Barnes and Noble $5.93 1 $5.93
Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies Laura Esquivel, Carol Christensen, Thomas Christensen, Thomas Christensen (Translator), Carol Christensen (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $9.57 1 $9.57
Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida Victor Martinez, Steve Scott (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.12 1 $5.12
So Far From God: A Novel Ana Castillo • Barnes and Noble $11.32 1 $11.32
10th Grade Joe Weisberg • Barnes and Noble $11.32 1 $11.32
You Don't Know Me David Klass • Barnes and Noble $7.68 1 $7.68
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors Piers Paul Read • Barnes and Noble $6.83 1 $6.83
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster Jon Krakauer • Barnes and Noble $10.26 1 $10.26
Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory, A Town's Search for It's Soul Bill Reynolds • Barnes and Noble $12.94 1 $12.94
Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee • Barnes and Noble $9.57 1 $9.57
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream H. G. Bissinger • Barnes and Noble $6.83 1 $6.83
The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams Darcy Frey • Barnes and Noble $9.53 1 $9.53
And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City High School Students Miles Corwin • Barnes and Noble $9.57 1 $9.57
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution Ji-li Jiang, Foreword by David Henry Hwang • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
A Step from Heaven An Na • Barnes and Noble $6.83 1 $6.83
Under the Feet of Jesus Helena Maria Viramontes • Barnes and Noble $9.57 1 $9.57
Deal Breaker (Myron Bolitar Series #1) Harlan Coben • Barnes and Noble $7.21 1 $7.21
Drop Shot (Myron Bolitar Series #2) Harlan Coben • Barnes and Noble $6.83 1 $6.83
Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States Lori Carlson, Oscar Hijuelos (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $6.83 1 $6.83
Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems, Vol. 701 Jimmy Santiago Baca, Baca • Barnes and Noble $8.89 1 $8.89
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui • Barnes and Noble $0.00 1 $0.00
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer • Barnes and Noble $10.22 1 $10.22
Fade Away (Myron Bolitar Series #3) Harlan Coben • Barnes and Noble $7.21 1 $7.21

Materials cost

$325.30

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$365.18

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$64.44

Total project goal

$429.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $429.62

2 Donors

-$429.62

Donations toward project cost

-$365.18

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$64.44

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