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Ms. Herwig from Revere MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Keep The Spark Going! GMS Reads

My students need fiction and nonfiction books and book sets including Dairy of a Wimpy Kid, The One and Only Ivan, Where She Went, and The Darkest Part of the Forest.

  • $714 goal

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

My students have started to develop a love for reading and are constantly seeking out new books to help feed their curiosity and love. Since the start of our in-class library, I consistently have daily visitors asking for author recommendations and to borrow books.

The students that walk everyday into my classroom are quite diverse and all have their own unique personality.

Most come from different living conditions and backgrounds, with our school having more than 75% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch. Due to the diverse population of students within this urban school district, the our educators have really put forth an enormous effort to make connections with the students, foster their learning, and pique their interests in a variety of different mediums and subject. However, it is difficult to do so with the lack of a school library for our middle schoolers. Because of this students need to find classroom resources to help develop an interest in learning and discovery.

My Project

These new books will help continue the spark we have ignited last year in our students' interests in learning. I am requesting fifty fiction and nonfiction books and book sets including Dairy of a Wimpy Kid, The One and Only Ivan, Where She Went, and The Darkest Part of the Forest. These books will be used for not only students' personal interest but also for our Drop Everything And Read (D.E.A.R.) program and for our GMS Book Club. With the diverse choice of books chosen, it will also allow students to access different types of writing and publishing, such as graphic novels, comics, and young reader books for our ELL and lower lexile level readers.

This project will truly help to continue to ignite the spark and keep the flame lit for my students to becoming life long readers and learners.

It will also provide a healthy break from today's screen time use and a way in which they can escape from their everyday stresses. They can experience worlds and ideas that they may not experience within their current living environment.

Ms. Herwig
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box of Books 1-8 + The Do-It-Yourself Book • Amazon Business $79.28 1 $79.28
Middle School Boxed Set • Amazon Business $35.84 1 $35.84
The Spiderwick Chronicles, the Complete Series: The Field Guide; The Seeing Stone; Lucinda's Secret; The Ironwood Tree; The Wrath of Mulgrath • Amazon Business $22.12 1 $22.12
Library of Souls: The Third Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children • Amazon Business $14.84 1 $14.84
Saint Anything • Amazon Business $12.82 1 $12.82
Star Wars: A New Hope The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy (Star Wars, Episode IV) • Amazon Business $12.78 1 $12.78
The Cloud Searchers (Amulet #3) • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
The Retribution of Mara Dyer (The Mara Dyer Trilogy) • Amazon Business $11.61 1 $11.61
The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave • Amazon Business $11.36 1 $11.36
Snow Like Ashes • Amazon Business $11.29 1 $11.29
Emily and the Strangers Volume 1: Battle of the Bands • Amazon Business $11.15 1 $11.15
Bone, Vol. 4: The Dragonslayer • Amazon Business $11.07 1 $11.07
Bone, Vol. 6: Old Man's Cave • Amazon Business $11.07 1 $11.07
Bone, Vol. 5: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border • Amazon Business $11.07 1 $11.07
Bone, Vol. 3: Eyes of the Storm • Amazon Business $11.07 1 $11.07
The Phantom Bully (Star Wars: Jedi Academy #3) • Amazon Business $11.07 1 $11.07
Fangirl: A Novel • Amazon Business $10.95 1 $10.95
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back So You Want to Be a Jedi? • Amazon Business $10.83 1 $10.83
Another Day • Amazon Business $10.09 1 $10.09
Never Always Sometimes (Harlequin Teen) • Amazon Business $10.09 1 $10.09
The Flea - The Amazing Story of Leo Messi • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Last Council (Amulet #4) • Amazon Business $9.90 1 $9.90
Bone, Vol. 2: The Great Cow Race • Amazon Business $9.75 1 $9.75
Red Queen • Amazon Business $9.42 1 $9.42
This One Summer • Amazon Business $9.24 1 $9.24
Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale • Amazon Business $9.18 1 $9.18
Star Wars: Jedi Academy • Amazon Business $9.14 1 $9.14
The Darkest Part of the Forest • Amazon Business $9.00 1 $9.00
Kingdom Keepers V: Shell Game • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Cardboard • Amazon Business $8.87 1 $8.87
The Evolution of Mara Dyer (The Mara Dyer Trilogy) • Amazon Business $8.86 1 $8.86
Emily and the Strangers Volume 2: Breaking the Record • Amazon Business $8.70 1 $8.70
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Beware the Power of the Dark Side! • Amazon Business $8.60 1 $8.60
Kingdom Keepers IV: Power Play • Amazon Business $8.58 1 $8.58
Valiant: A Modern Faerie Tale (Modern Faerie Tale) • Amazon Business $8.18 1 $8.18
Star Wars: Jedi Academy, Return of the Padawan (Book 2) • Amazon Business $8.14 1 $8.14
The City of Ember: The Graphic Novel (Books of Ember) • Amazon Business $7.39 1 $7.39
Boost • Amazon Business $7.15 1 $7.15
Just One Day • Amazon Business $7.13 1 $7.13
Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale (Modern Faerie Tale) • Amazon Business $7.03 1 $7.03
Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children • Amazon Business $6.70 1 $6.70
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (The Mara Dyer Trilogy) • Amazon Business $6.40 1 $6.40
The Girl Who Threw Butterflies • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
The One and Only Ivan • Amazon Business $6.00 1 $6.00
Every Day • Amazon Business $5.84 1 $5.84
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children) • Amazon Business $5.71 1 $5.71
Where She Went • Amazon Business $5.11 1 $5.11
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Revised Edition) • Amazon Business $4.76 1 $4.76
How to Eat Fried Worms • Amazon Business $4.31 1 $4.31

Materials cost

$556.45

Vendor shipping charges

$11.97

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.35

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$606.77

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$107.08

Total project goal

$713.85

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$713.85

12 Donors

-$613.85

Donations toward project cost

-$521.77

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$92.08

match offer

-$100.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$85.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.00

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$0.00

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