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Ms. Potter from Farmville VA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Books Fall Open You Fall In

My students need access to a wonderful selection of 50+ high interest reading books!

  • $683 goal

This project expired on December 16, 2013.

This project expired on December 16, 2013.

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

Do you remember what it was like the first time you read a book that you couldn't put down? My students have not yet discovered books that capture their imaginations, but they have also not yet met "Divergent," "Percy Jackson," "Origami Yoda," and so many more!

My students are a mixture of 8th grade standard and advanced students.

Our schools is located in a historical, high need, tiny, and rural town. They are great kids, but they don't have a thirst for knowledge and reading. I think part of that issue is because they just don't know that reading can be FUN!

My Project

I have spent the last seven years watching my students struggle to find things to read or not even bother reading because their options are so sparse, or they don't even know there is such a thing as reading for fun. I would love to be able to provide a classroom library that my students can peruse and borrow from simply to read for FUN! After polling my students and exhaustive research I believe that I have put together an amazing collection of books (from adventure to horror to romance to Sci Fi) that can't help but entice my students to read. If I can get a good base started on a classroom library I can add new books to it every year. Therefore, your donation will help my current 95 students (and countless students in the years to come)learn that reading can be fun and interesting!

My school is located in a town that doesn't have access to a true blue bookstore.

In fact, if someone in our town wants to drive to a bookstore it would take them over a 40 minute drive to get to one. On top of that, our library is not stocked with quite enough books that entice and draw students in. Because of this my students have quite a hard time accessing exciting books that they would like to read for fun.

Ms. Potter
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
A Pretty Little Liars Box Set: Wicked: The Second Collection: Wicked, Killer, Heartless, Wanted • Amazon $22.28 1 $22.28
Pretty Little Liars Box Set: Books 1 to 4 • Amazon $20.48 1 $20.48
The Surprise Attack of Jabba the Puppett: An Origami Yoda Book • Amazon $8.89 2 $17.78
Gorgeous • Amazon $13.88 1 $13.88
Reached (Matched Trilogy Book 3) • Amazon $13.28 1 $13.28
Gated • Amazon $13.28 1 $13.28
The Tragedy Paper • Amazon $13.28 1 $13.28
This Is What Happy Looks Like • Amazon $13.28 1 $13.28
Shadows (Ashes Trilogy, Book 2) • Amazon $13.28 1 $13.28
The List • Amazon $13.28 1 $13.28
Just One Day • Amazon $13.28 1 $13.28
The Evolution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer Trilogy, The) • Amazon $13.28 1 $13.28
Quarantine #2: The Saints • Amazon $13.28 1 $13.28
Outpost (Enclave) • Amazon $13.28 1 $13.28
Winger • Amazon $12.68 1 $12.68
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Paperback Boxed Set (Books 1-3) • Amazon $11.69 1 $11.69
The 5th Wave • Amazon $10.99 1 $10.99
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda • Amazon $10.26 1 $10.26
The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee: An Origami Yoda Book • Amazon $10.26 1 $10.26
Darth Paper Strikes Back: An Origami Yoda Book • Amazon $10.26 1 $10.26
Insurgent (Divergent, Book 2) • Amazon $9.24 1 $9.24
The Fault in Our Stars • Amazon $9.24 1 $9.24
Eleanor & Park • Amazon $9.08 1 $9.08
Wonder • Amazon $9.03 1 $9.03
The Maze Runner (Book 1) • Amazon $8.96 1 $8.96
Twisted (Pretty Little Liars, Book 9) • Amazon $8.48 1 $8.48
Wake (Watersong) • Amazon $8.48 1 $8.48
The Future of Us • Amazon $8.48 1 $8.48
Birthmarked (Birthmarked Trilogy (Quality)) • Amazon $8.48 1 $8.48
Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, Book 1) • Amazon $8.48 1 $8.48
Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries, The Return, Vol. 1) • Amazon $8.48 1 $8.48
The Awakening / The Struggle (Vampire Diaries, Books 1-2) • Amazon $8.48 1 $8.48
Legend • Amazon $8.48 1 $8.48
Crossed (Matched) • Amazon $8.48 1 $8.48
Matched • Amazon $8.48 1 $8.48
Ashes (Ashes Trilogy, Book 1) • Amazon $8.48 1 $8.48
Cinder (Lunar Chronicles) • Amazon $8.48 1 $8.48
The Selection (Selection - Trilogy (Quality)) • Amazon $8.48 1 $8.48
My Life Next Door • Amazon $8.48 1 $8.48
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight • Amazon $8.09 1 $8.09
If I Stay • Amazon $7.88 1 $7.88
The Fury and Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries) • Amazon $7.88 1 $7.88
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares • Amazon $7.88 1 $7.88
No Safety In Numbers • Amazon $7.88 1 $7.88
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, Book 1) • Amazon $7.34 1 $7.34
Shatter Me • Amazon $7.20 1 $7.20
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4) • Amazon $7.19 1 $7.19
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 5) • Amazon $7.19 1 $7.19
Payback Time • Amazon $7.19 1 $7.19
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children • Amazon $6.59 1 $6.59
Out of My Mind • Amazon $6.29 1 $6.29
Free Thaddeus! • Amazon $6.26 1 $6.26
Divergent • Amazon $5.13 1 $5.13
Enclave • Amazon $4.00 1 $4.00

Materials cost

$541.62

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.12

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$579.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$102.31

Total project goal

$682.05

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