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Ms. Kearney from Philadelphia PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Get Away at Your School Library

My students need these exciting new titles to participate in Teen Read Week and Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Awards.

  • $583 goal

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My Students

Our students like to escape the pressures of academics with books. Our school library provides a place to "get away" and read for sheer pleasure. Teen Read Week and Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award selections give our students a variety of tantalizing titles to transport them.

Our students are high performing and curious.

We have a functioning school library with a certified librarian but no set budget. Though our students use the school library for research and inquiry, they like to enjoy the comfortable atmosphere of the school library and check out current titles. They look to the school library as a quiet haven where they can engage in all the delights reading for pleasure promises.

My Project

Each year, students have the opportunity to vote for their favorite Teen Read through the American Library Association's Young Adult School Librarian Association. Teen Read Week comes early in mid October, so our school library typically does not own many of the books on the list. My students need a collection of exciting new books. If we could start the school year with these titles, the students could check them out and participate in the online voting. These titles are nominated by teens themselves. Similarly, our students have taken part in Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Awards, another program where young people nominate the titles chosen for the list. To participate, students need to read three titles from the list. There are three levels: 3-6, 6-8, and Young Adult. In March, the students vote for their favorite. The results are tallied and sent to the librarians in charge. In May, the state's favorites are announced. Our school librarian then holds a PYRCA Ball where readers walk down the red carpet to celebrate the winners.

Any donation to a school library helps not only the specific project but the entire school community.

Participants in these two events will enjoy the camaraderie and fun attached to reading and sharing a good book; however, all the students will benefit from the addition of these favorite titles to our school library collection not just for this year but for years to come.

Ms. Kearney
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Handle With Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey (Nonfiction - Grades Prek-4) (Junior Library Guild Selection) • Amazon Business $22.24 1 $22.24
Those Who Wish Me Dead • Amazon Business $18.27 1 $18.27
El Deafo • Amazon Business $17.16 1 $17.16
The Secret Box • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
Stubby the War Dog: The True Story of World War I's Bravest Dog • Amazon Business $14.66 1 $14.66
The Menagerie • Amazon Business $13.82 1 $13.82
If You're Reading This • Amazon Business $13.82 1 $13.82
Lies We Tell Ourselves (Harlequin Teen) • Amazon Business $13.78 1 $13.78
The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
The Castle Behind Thorns • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Let's Get Lost (English Edition) • Amazon Business $13.43 1 $13.43
National Geographic Kids Chapters: The Whale Who Won Hearts: And More True Stories of Adventures with Animals (NGK Chapters) • Amazon Business $13.41 1 $13.41
Loki's Wolves (Blackwell Pages) • Amazon Business $13.40 1 $13.40
The Summer I Saved the World . . . in 65 Days • Amazon Business $13.33 1 $13.33
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold (Junior Library Guild Selection) • Amazon Business $13.29 1 $13.29
The Weight of Blood: A Novel • Amazon Business $12.97 1 $12.97
Half a Chance • Amazon Business $12.92 1 $12.92
Threatened • Amazon Business $12.53 1 $12.53
We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a true story • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
Greenglass House • Amazon Business $12.39 1 $12.39
Boys Like You • Amazon Business $12.06 1 $12.06
Grasshopper Jungle • Amazon Business $11.86 1 $11.86
The Young Elites (A Young Elites Novel) • Amazon Business $11.84 1 $11.84
Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor: Book One • Amazon Business $11.78 1 $11.78
All the Bright Places • Amazon Business $11.70 1 $11.70
The Geography of You and Me • Amazon Business $11.25 1 $11.25
Fire & Flood • Amazon Business $11.24 1 $11.24
Nightmares! • Amazon Business $10.81 1 $10.81
Mountain Dog • Amazon Business $10.81 1 $10.81
Noggin • Amazon Business $10.44 1 $10.44
To All the Boys I've Loved Before • Amazon Business $10.16 1 $10.16
Storm Watcher • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
My Life with the Walter Boys • Amazon Business $9.08 1 $9.08
The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy) • Amazon Business $8.09 1 $8.09
Double Vision • Amazon Business $6.80 1 $6.80

Materials cost

$457.88

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$494.75

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$87.31

Total project goal

$582.06

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$582.06

11 Donors

-$546.76

Donations toward project cost

-$494.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$52.01

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$35.30

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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