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Ms. Wilkins from Genoa, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Wilkins's classroom raised $764

GKHS Library's Nonfiction Collection Needs a Big Boost!

My students need 40 life relevant, current, and compelling nonfiction books including "Freakonomics" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" to educate and inspire them while sparking their passion for reading.

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Ms. Wilkins Genoa - Kingston High School
Genoa, IL Grades 9-12

My Students

We live in a world that is constantly changing. In order to ignite passion and interest in reading nonfiction, the books in our library need to serve as a mirror for those changes. The average copyright date in our library falls between 1975 and 1995, which is an injustice to our researchers.

Our students attend a rural public high school, which serves about 650 students.

We are located in an area where the socioeconomic status of many residents is low. Many students have parents who are out of work. Our school relies heavily on state funding. This year we are struggling due to the state not coming through with that funding. Programs and teachers are being cut, and our students are feeling the brunt. Our students are creative and kind and they strive to reach their goals no matter what obstacles they face. They continue to achieve successfully despite more challenges and fewer resources. They forge ahead without complaints. Despite these challenges, our students work hard and utilize the limited resources we have to the best of their ability. They are patient when waiting for books from other libraries because we don't have the books they need. They don't make excuses.

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"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital." Thomas Jefferson This quote illustrates how your gift will impact our students for the rest of their lives and stresses education's crucial mission. Not only will these nonfiction resources fill our students with knowledge of life stories, rich cultural heritages, and historical events, but they will also ignite their passion for learning and reading for the rest of their lives. Our students will have access to intriguing and culturally rich accounts of Prohibition, John Lennon, Marian Anderson, social experiments such as The Pregnancy Project, and The Women's Rights Movement. These stories will inspire our students and illustrate how they can make a difference in their world by reading about others who did the same.

If you help fund this project, you serve as a vehicle for the transporting of knowledge that will help ignite our students' passion for reading and learning forever.

Your gift will never stop giving! Even when our students graduate and soar into the world outside of high school, the knowledge and skills your gift helped build will remain with them. Your gift will not only impact our current student, but also our students for years to come. Books are gifts that give for life.

Half of students from low‑income households

650 students impacted 2 donors
Ms. Wilkins Genoa - Kingston High School Grades 9-12 Genoa, IL View local requests

Half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Everything Sucks • AKJ Books $9.58 1 $9.58
Will''s Choice • AKJ Books $11.09 1 $11.09
Wheels of Change • AKJ Books $14.02 1 $14.02
Bootleg • AKJ Books $14.05 1 $14.05
How They Croaked • AKJ Books $13.31 1 $13.31
The Pregnancy Test • AKJ Books $13.31 1 $13.31
John Lennon • AKJ Books $18.49 1 $18.49
Celebrating a Quinceanera • AKJ Books $13.28 1 $13.28
This Is Why You''re Fat: Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks Je • AKJ Books $7.39 1 $7.39
Lucky Alice Sebold • AKJ Books $18.50 1 $18.50
The Power to Prevent Suicide • AKJ Books $10.35 1 $10.35
Rae • AKJ Books $5.88 1 $5.88
Neon Angel • AKJ Books $18.49 1 $18.49
Live Through This • AKJ Books $17.76 1 $17.76
Sex A Book for Teens • AKJ Books $9.61 1 $9.61
The ADHD Workbook for Teens • AKJ Books $12.54 1 $12.54
Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till • AKJ Books $14.05 1 $14.05
Phineas Gage • AKJ Books $11.84 1 $11.84
True Notebooks: A Writer''s Year at Juvenile Hall • AKJ Books $11.10 1 $11.10
A Stolen Life • AKJ Books $18.49 1 $18.49
Escape! • AKJ Books $14.05 1 $14.05
Three Cups of Tea: One Man''s Journey to Change the World... • AKJ Books $12.57 1 $12.57
Beautiful Boy • AKJ Books $17.76 1 $17.76
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX • AKJ Books $14.79 1 $14.79
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the • AKJ Books $13.32 1 $13.32
Dressed • AKJ Books $36.99 1 $36.99
The Worst Hard Time • AKJ Books $20.72 1 $20.72
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer • AKJ Books $18.46 1 $18.46
Nobody Likes You • AKJ Books $17.72 1 $17.72
Radioactive Boyscout • AKJ Books $10.32 1 $10.32
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, F • AKJ Books $14.80 1 $14.80
Janis Joplin • AKJ Books $14.76 1 $14.76
The Basketball Diaries Jim Carroll • AKJ Books $11.10 1 $11.10
Friday Night Lights • AKJ Books $19.24 1 $19.24
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Stre • AKJ Books $11.84 1 $11.84
Freakonomics • AKJ Books $22.16 1 $22.16
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs • AKJ Books $11.10 1 $11.10
Just Kids • AKJ Books $19.98 1 $19.98
Life • AKJ Books $25.89 1 $25.89
According to the Rolling Stones • AKJ Books $14.36 1 $14.36

Materials cost

$605.06

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 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.08

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$649.14

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$114.55

Total project goal

$763.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $763.69

2 Donors

-$763.69

Donations toward project cost

-$649.14

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$114.55

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