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Ms. Godwin from San Francisco CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Books Can Take My Students Anywhere They Want To Go!

My students need 5 copies each of Matt de la Pena's high-interest books to better connect with reading.

  • $277 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Many of our students are interested in reading, but not all of them. Some of them have not yet experienced losing themselves in a story.

Our students are savvy and charismatic, bright and dynamic.

Over 90 percent of them are on free or reduced lunch, and many of them will be the first in their family to go to college. They carry a lot of weight on their shoulders, and they often struggle with the challenges they face at school and at home. But they have hopes and dreams of making the world a better place, and they have the potential to do exactly that.

My Project

A rich selection of diverse books will enable our students to find a book that resonates with them, lose themselves in the story, and engage with reading in a new and improved way. Our students need to discover the joy of reading for pleasure, so they go on to become life-long readers and experience the benefits of reading proficiently.

Our students will see high interest books, with stories that reflect their own experience, and will know that they are not alone in the world, and that their stories matter.

They will see their own existences validated, and will learn about what they can become.

Ms. Godwin
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Living • Amazon $13.75 5 $68.75
We Were Here • Amazon $8.09 5 $40.45
Ball Don't Lie • Amazon $7.19 5 $35.95
Mexican WhiteBoy • Amazon $8.09 5 $40.45

Materials cost

$185.60

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$16.98

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.78

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$235.36

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$41.53

Total project goal

$276.89

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$276.89

6 Donors

-$185.00

Donations toward project cost

-$157.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.75

match offer

-$91.89

Match offer toward project cost

-$78.11

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.78

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$0.00

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