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Mrs. Joyal from Antioch CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Isn't Issac Newton A Cookie?

My students need 53 books for a high interest biography library.

  • $503 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

I teach amazing third grade children at a high needs school. All students receive free breakfast, and most qualify for free and reduced lunch. Our class is made up of a wide variety of abilities, and the students often have to overcome obstacles at home for them to be successful. At times these obstacles overflow into the classroom. Too often, the children's confidence is so low, they assume they will not understand a new concept and are defeated before even trying. The words "I can't" are used so much that the kids are asked not to say the "C" word in our class. We always laugh when someone accidentally says it, and although I try to joke with them it's really not a joking matter. By providing my class with biographies of people in history such as Gandhi, Obama, Henry Ford, Marie Curie, Amelia Earhart, Wright Brothers, Sally Ride, and Issac Newton, students will learn that they are not alone when it comes to obstacles. These remarkable people explored the unknown, and through determination, hard work, and education they succeeded. My hope is that these stories help change my students' outlook on their life and give them the needed inner strength to succeed. Please help me make this possible.

Mrs. Joyal
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Man Who Walked Between the Towers Mordicai Gerstein, Mordicai Gerstein (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
The Seuss, the Whole Seuss and Nothing But the Seuss: A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel Charles D. Cohen • Barnes and Noble $12.98 1 $12.98
Gandhi (DK Biography Series) Amy Pastan • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Barack Obama: Our 44th President Beatrice Gormley • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Benjamin Franklin (Time For Kids Biographies Series) Editors Of Time For Kids, With Kathryn Hoffman Satterfield • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Theodore Roosevelt: The Adventurous President (Time For Kids Biographies Series) Editors Of Time For Kids, Time Magazine, Time for Kids Magazine, With Lisa DeMauro • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Who Was Sacagawea? Dennis Brindell Fradin, Peter Roop, Connie Roop • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Who Was Albert Einstein? Jess M. Brallier, Jess Brallier, Robert Parker (Illustrator), Nancy Harrison (Illustrator), Robert Andrew Parker (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Thomas Edison (Time For Kids Biographies Series) Editors Of Time For Kids, With Lisa DeMauro • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
The Burn Journals Brent Runyon • Barnes and Noble $11.16 1 $11.16
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman Kathleen Krull, David Diaz (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.30 1 $6.30
Who Was Anne Frank? Nancy Harrison (Illustrator), Ann Abramson • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
John F. Kennedy: The Making of a Leader (Time For Kids Biographies Series) Editors Of Time For Kids, Time for Kids Magazine, With Ritu Upadhyay • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Barack Obama: An American Story Roberta Edwards, Ken Call (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield (Time For Kids Biographies Series) Editors Of Time For Kids, Anna Prokos, With Anna Prokos • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Sterling Biographies: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen Susan Blackaby • Barnes and Noble $5.35 1 $5.35
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dreams Taking Flight Kathleen Krull, Amy June Bates (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.59 1 $13.59
Henry Ford: Putting the World on Wheels (Time For Kids Biographies Series) Editors Of Time For Kids, Dina El Nabli • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Story of George Washington Carver (Scholastic Biography) Eva Moore, Alexander Anderson (Illustrator), Alexander Anderson (Photographer) • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Our Country's Presidents: All You Need to Know about the Presidents, from George Washington to Barack Obama Ann Bausum, Foreword by Barack Obama • Barnes and Noble $19.96 1 $19.96
Who Was Thomas Jefferson? Dennis Brindell Fradin, John O'Brien (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Who Was Harry Houdini? Tui T. Sutherland, John O'Brien (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Michelle Obama David Colbert • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Michelle Obama: Meet the First Lady David Bergen Brophy • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Who Was Marco Polo? (Who Was...? Series) John O'Brien (Illustrator), Joan Holub, Nancy Harrison (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Princess Diana Joanne Mattern, DK Publishing • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau Jennifer Berne, Eric Puybaret (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.59 1 $13.59
My Book about Me Dr. Seuss, Roy McKie • Barnes and Noble $11.96 1 $11.96
Who Was King Tut? Roberta Edwards, True Kelley (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? Yona Zeldis McDonough, Carrie Robbins (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Who Was Louis Armstrong? Yona Zeldis McDonough, John O'Brien (Illustrator), Nancy Harrison (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Time For Kids: Alexander Graham Bell Editors Of Time For Kids, John Micklos (Editor), With John Micklos • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Who Was mark Twain? April Prince, John O'Brien (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Who Was Charles Darwin? Deborah Hopkinson, Nancy Harrison (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
The Art Lesson Tomie dePaola, Tomie de Paola (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei Peter Sis, Peter Sis (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
Marie Curie Vicki Cobb • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Who Was Amelia Earhart? Kate Boehm Jerome, David Cain (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Who Was Ferdinand Magellan? Sydelle Kramer, Elizabeth Wolf (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Milton Hershey: Young Chocolatier (Childhood of Famous Americans Series) M. M. Eboch, Meryl Henderson (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Neil Armstrong (History Maker Bios Series) Shannon Zemlicka, Tim Parlin (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.35 1 $5.35
Bill Gates (A&E Biographies) Jeanne M. Lesinski • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
Picture History of Great Inventors Gillian Clements, Gillian Clements (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.65 1 $11.65
Isaac Newton and the Laws of Motion Andrea Gianopoulos, Phil Miller (Illustrator), Charles Barnett (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
The Colors of Us Karen Katz, Karen Katz (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers (I Can Read Chapter Book Series) George Shea, Don Bolognese (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Sally Ride Elizabeth Raum • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
The 39 Apartments of Ludwig Van Beethoven Jonah Winter • Barnes and Noble $5.98 1 $5.98
Cesar Chavez Ginger Wadsworth, Mark Schroeder (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
The Paper Bag Princess Robert Munsch, Michael Martchenko (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
I Know a Lady Charlotte Zolotow, James Stevenson (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
All in a Day Cynthia Rylant, Nikki McClure (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.36 1 $14.36

Materials cost

$339.44

Vendor shipping charges

$33.94

Sales tax

$24.61

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.09

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$412.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$90.44

Total project goal

$502.44

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$502.44

1 Donor

-$502.44

Donations toward project cost

-$412.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$90.44

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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