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Mrs. Tavera from Brooklyn NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Books! Books! Books! We Need Books Badly!

My students need 40+ books on various topics, including Poetry, Mystery, Humor and a few others.

  • $513 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

Have you ever felt the feeling that you love and enjoy reading non-fiction as well as fiction and chapter books, however you could never find any interesting ones in your classroom to read? My students love to read but our classroom does not have a great deal of modern interesting new books.

My students are truly amazing.

They come from a very low income housing project. They are always excited to come to school and learn. Many of them come to us from broken homes. Many have a parent that is incarcerated currently. My students come to me from foster homes as well as homeless shelters. The majority of my students are being raised by a single parent and in many instances it is a grandparent that is raising them. In spite of all this, the students are always excited and eager to learn. 98% of the students here eat the free lunch and breakfast. Our students are hard working and eager to always do their best. They are supportive of their peers and staff. They are wonderful, kind children who simply want to have a pleasant day at school each day. They simple want to be treated with dignity and to enjoy their teachers and friends as they learn new and exciting things. My students love to learn and are very excited about their future and strive for success always.

My Project

My students would truly enjoy having interesting non-fiction as well as fiction books to read. Their desks and chairs are uncomfortable and they find it difficult to stay seated in them for too long. They shift and fidget and lose their concentration often. They become very disinterested in the genera of books available in the classroom. I believe that if they had the sort of books they enjoy they would be a great deal more comfortable in their seats. They would sit and learn and enjoy the reading block. Books are the key to my students success and I have made it my mission as their teacher to help them build home libraries and class libraries. I want them to always have access to books that appeal to them. They love humor. My students are desperately in need of your support. They need interesting books. I hope someone will help these wonderful students. It certainly takes a village to raise a child, and all of our supporters at donorschoose.org are an important part of our community.

These smart and excited students are eager and interested in learning.

They are at the age where they love true stories as well as humor. They love non-fiction and series books. I want them to have great books in September to begin the school year on the right foot. I want to help them jump start their reading skills and improve them rapidly. It pays off to be very proactive in the lives of these students. With our support the sky becomes the limit for them in terms of what they can achieve.

Mrs. Tavera
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
A Pizza the Size of the Sun • AKJ Books $13.31 1 $13.31
Falling Up: Poems and Drawings • AKJ Books $14.79 1 $14.79
Funny Poems to Give You the Giggles Susie Gibbs (Editor), Ke • AKJ Books $9.00 1 $9.00
I Must Go Down to the Beach Again • AKJ Books $4.40 1 $4.40
Laugheteria • AKJ Books $5.92 1 $5.92
Revolting Poems to Make You Squirm Susie Gibbs (Compiler) • AKJ Books $9.00 1 $9.00
Scary Poems to Make You Shiver Susie Gibbs, Martin Chatterto • AKJ Books $9.00 1 $9.00
Cat on the Mat Is Flat • AKJ Books $5.17 1 $5.17
All the Small Poems and Fourteen More • AKJ Books $6.65 1 $6.65
Anna Banana • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
Case of the Fiendish Flapjack Flop • AKJ Books $4.99 1 $4.99
Celebrate Through Heartsongs • AKJ Books $11.06 1 $11.06
Confetti • AKJ Books $6.62 1 $6.62
Don''t Read This Book, Whatever You Do! : More Poems about School • AKJ Books $3.69 1 $3.69
Dr. Seuss''s Sleep Book Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss (Illustrator) • AKJ Books $11.06 1 $11.06
Falling Down the Page Georgia Heard (Editor) • AKJ Books $13.31 1 $13.31
Haiku Patricia Donegan • AKJ Books $11.80 1 $11.80
Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow: Poems Joyce • AKJ Books $12.57 1 $12.57
Old Elm Speaks • AKJ Books $4.40 1 $4.40
Sharing the Seasons: A Book of Poems Selected by Lee Bennett • AKJ Books $16.27 1 $16.27
Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems Joyce Sidman, • AKJ Books $12.57 1 $12.57
Magic Kitten #4: A Christmas Surprise • AKJ Books $3.69 1 $3.69
A Very Merry Christmas • AKJ Books $5.17 1 $5.17
Christmas Catastrophe (Geronimo Stilton Series) Geronimo Sti • AKJ Books $5.17 1 $5.17
Christmas in Camelot (Magic Tree House Series #29) Mary Pope • AKJ Books $8.84 1 $8.84
Christmas Stories: (Little House Chapter Book Series: The La • AKJ Books $3.69 1 $3.69
Felicity''s Surprise • AKJ Books $6.26 1 $6.26
Holly&apos • AKJ Books $3.69 1 $3.69
Judy Moody and Stink • AKJ Books $11.09 1 $11.09
Merry Christmas, Geronimo! (Geronimo Stilton Series #12) Ger • AKJ Books $5.17 1 $5.17
213 Valentines • AKJ Books $8.10 1 $8.10
Attack of the 50-FT. Cupid (Fanny K. Stein, Mad Scientist #2 • AKJ Books $11.83 1 $11.83
Attack of the 50-FT. Cupid (Fanny K. Stein, Mad Scientist #2 • AKJ Books $3.69 1 $3.69
Cupid Doesn''t Flip Hamburgers Debbie Dadey, John Steven Gurn • AKJ Books $3.69 1 $3.69
Geronimo''s Valentine • AKJ Books $5.17 1 $5.17
Horrible Harry and the Kickball Wedding • AKJ Books $2.95 1 $2.95
Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentine • AKJ Books $3.69 1 $3.69
Katie Kazoo #15 Love Stinks • AKJ Books $2.95 1 $2.95
Mr. Louie Is Screwy! (My Weird School Series #20) Dan Gutman • AKJ Books $2.95 1 $2.95
Sweet and Sunny • AKJ Books $12.57 1 $12.57
Crust and Spray: Gross Stuff in Your Eyes, Ears, Nose, and T • AKJ Books $21.66 1 $21.66
Guts: Our Digestive System Seymour Simon • AKJ Books $13.24 1 $13.24
Hawk and Drool: Gross Stuff in Your Mouth Sandra Donovan, Mi • AKJ Books $21.66 1 $21.66
Itches and Scratches • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
Ooze and Goo • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
Puke and Poo • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
Skeleton • AKJ Books $12.57 1 $12.57
Brain, The • AKJ Books $5.17 1 $5.17
Circulatory Story, The • AKJ Books $5.88 1 $5.88

Materials cost

$399.76

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$435.76

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.90

Total project goal

$512.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$512.66

11 Donors

-$512.66

Donations toward project cost

-$444.26

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$68.40

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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$0.00

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