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Ms. Staab from Seattle WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Book Clubs: Our Favorite!

My students need book club book sets to get our literature circles going and Scholastic News magazines to incorporate more informational text.

  • $1,115 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Students

I teach a fourth grade and fifth grade multi-age classroom at an urban school district in Washington. Many students at our school come from low socioeconomic backgrounds and need all of the resources they can get at school!

I am a sixth year teacher needing some help to equip my classroom library with chapter books for my developing readers who need to continue being challenged.

I have a wide range of levels and a large group of advanced readers who need fourth, fifth, sixth, and even seventh grade level chapter books to keep them engaged!

My Project

In this project, I have requested a variety of chapter book sets so that I can have multiple copies for students to read during our books clubs/literature circles. Students will be meeting in groups with their own copy of the same book so that they read individually and discuss their thoughts on the story as it develops. Book clubs have worked successfully in my classroom in the past, and I see a huge benefit in seeing students learn how to discuss with each other about books and being able to share ideas or disagreeing thoughts in appropriate and polite ways. My students will be challenged greatly from books clubs, especially as they grow as readers and thinkers.

Thank you for reading about this important project!

There is no greater satisfaction for a teacher than to see her students become absorbed in books! Please help me to provide my growing readers with the needed challenge to spur on their reading and fall even more in love with books!

Ms. Staab
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Complete Wreck (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Books 1-13) • Amazon $93.22 1 $93.22
Brown Girl Dreaming • Amazon $10.74 4 $42.96
The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again • Amazon $9.48 4 $37.92
Gregor The Overlander (Underland Chronicles, Book 1) • Amazon $4.40 4 $17.60
Coraline • Amazon $5.84 4 $23.36
Amulet Boxset: Books 1-3 • Amazon $28.05 1 $28.05
Al Capone Does My Shirts • Amazon $6.99 4 $27.96
Prisoner B-3087 • Amazon $13.02 2 $26.04
Fablehaven Complete Set (Boxed Set): Fablehaven; Rise of the Evening Star; Grip of the Shadow Plague; Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary; Keys to the Demon Prison • Amazon $25.46 1 $25.46
Out of My Mind • Amazon $6.25 4 $25.00
Rush Revere and the First Patriots: Time-Travel Adventures With Exceptional Americans • Amazon $11.97 2 $23.94
The View from Saturday • Amazon $5.71 3 $17.13
Stargirl • Amazon $5.68 3 $17.04
Paperboy • Amazon $10.90 2 $21.80
The Giver (Giver Quartet) • Amazon $5.39 4 $21.56
Absolutely Almost • Amazon $10.74 2 $21.48
The Boundless • Amazon $10.74 2 $21.48
The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics) • Amazon $5.32 4 $21.28
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List • Amazon $10.47 2 $20.94
Because of Mr. Terupt • Amazon $5.17 3 $15.51
Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin • Amazon $5.06 4 $20.24
Among the Hidden (Shadow Children #1) • Amazon $4.99 3 $14.97
The Wednesday Wars • Amazon $3.94 4 $15.76
The Lemonade War (The Lemonade War Series) • Amazon $4.65 4 $18.60
Esperanza Rising • Amazon $4.40 3 $13.20
Walk Two Moons • Amazon $3.94 3 $11.82
Listening for Lucca • Amazon $13.30 1 $13.30
The City of Ember (The First Book of Ember) • Amazon $4.22 2 $8.44
George Washington: The Crossing • Amazon $11.39 1 $11.39
Another Day as Emily • Amazon $11.07 1 $11.07
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures • Amazon $11.02 1 $11.02
The Book with No Pictures • Amazon $10.86 1 $10.86
A Snicker of Magic • Amazon $10.74 1 $10.74
365 Days of Wonder: Mr. Browne's Book of Precepts • Amazon $10.09 1 $10.09
Amulet #4: The Last Council • Amazon $10.05 1 $10.05
Amulet #5: Prince of the Elves • Amazon $9.90 1 $9.90
The Year of Billy Miller • Amazon $9.60 1 $9.60
Son (Giver Quartet) • Amazon $8.99 1 $8.99
Counting by 7s • Amazon $8.09 1 $8.09
Speak • Amazon $8.01 1 $8.01
El Deafo • Amazon $7.66 1 $7.66
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever • Amazon $3.74 2 $7.48
Amulet #6: Escape From Lucien • Amazon $7.44 1 $7.44
How to Steal a Dog • Amazon $6.29 1 $6.29
A Crooked Kind of Perfect • Amazon $6.29 1 $6.29
Finally • Amazon $5.71 1 $5.71
Gathering Blue (Giver Quartet) • Amazon $5.08 1 $5.08

Materials cost

$831.82

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$72.78

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.48

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$947.08

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$167.13

Total project goal

$1,114.21

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,114.21

7 Donors

-$1,035.19

Donations toward project cost

-$883.33

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$151.86

match offer

-$75.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$63.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.02

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$0.00

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