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Mrs. Hale from Chino Hills CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building the Library Our Students Deserve

Help me give my students high-interest, diverse novels and books that are appropriate for their grade level.

  • $995 goal

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My Students

The students at our school are--to be blunt--incredible. They are hard-working, creative, energetic, kind, and highly involved. I have seen students encouraging one another, creating beautiful works of art, inventing solutions to the problems they see around them, and working with their teachers to be the best they can be. They deserve an incredible library that will feed their hungry minds, stimulate their imaginations, and build their academic confidence. Our students are begging for challenging, interesting, and engaging new books to read.

My Project

Our school has a lovely, welcoming library that is well-used by students and teachers alike. Sadly, the latest update was many years ago, and we have found that it is lacking books in the genres our students enjoy and at the levels of complexity they need.

We need a library that supports the literacy goals of our teachers and builds a reading culture in our students.

Contrary to popular belief, young people are reading, and they want good books! We have found that we are especially in need of books that will engage and encourage our average and advanced readers. Some requested books include Sylvia & Aki, Riding Freedom, Rules, Dancing Home, and The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

We appreciate a donation of any amount to help us toward our goal of building a magical library.

Mrs. Hale
Grades 6-8

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Earthsea Cycle (6 bk set) • AKJ Education $41.86 1 $41.86
The Lord of the Rings (4 bk set) • AKJ Education $26.91 1 $26.91
Mysterious Patterns • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
The Girl Who Drank the Moon • AKJ Education $16.16 1 $16.16
Under the Mesquite • AKJ Education $14.56 1 $14.56
How It Went Down • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Sit-In How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Brothers In Hope The Story Of The Lost Boys Of Sudan • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
The Other Side • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Red Pencil • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Librarian of Basra A True Story from Iraq • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Each Kindness • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Eight Days: A Story of Haiti • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Biblioburro A True Story from Colombia • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The last stop on market street • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Marisol McDonald no combina (Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match) • AKJ Education $13.10 1 $13.10
Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition • AKJ Education $6.29 2 $12.58
Enrique's Journey • AKJ Education $12.41 1 $12.41
Fish in a Tree • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Black Boy • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
The Joy Luck Club (Common Core Exemplar) • AKJ Education $11.68 1 $11.68
A Thousand Splendid Suns • AKJ Education $11.68 1 $11.68
Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel • AKJ Education $11.67 1 $11.67
When I Was Puerto Rican A Memoir • AKJ Education $11.67 1 $11.67
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close A Novel • AKJ Education $11.67 1 $11.67
Warriors Don't Cry The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
The Kite Runner (10th Anniversary) • AKJ Education $11.20 1 $11.20
The Playbook • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
March: Book One • AKJ Education $10.91 1 $10.91
The Book Thief • AKJ Education $10.49 1 $10.49
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier • AKJ Education $10.22 1 $10.22
Things Fall Apart: A Novel • AKJ Education $9.49 1 $9.49
El Deafo • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
The Crossover • AKJ Education $9.38 1 $9.38
All American Boys • AKJ Education $8.75 1 $8.75
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon • AKJ Education $8.75 1 $8.75
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian • AKJ Education $8.69 1 $8.69
The Running Dream • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Drama • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Brown Girl Dreaming • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
American Born Chinese • AKJ Education $7.69 1 $7.69
Ball Don't Lie • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Mexican WhiteBoy • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Parvana's Journey • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
The Breadwinner • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
Out of My Mind • AKJ Education $6.99 1 $6.99
Sold • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Code Talker • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Dreamer • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Tangerine • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Inside Out and Back Again • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Chains: Seeds of America • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
Rules • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Elijah of Buxton • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Crossing the Wire • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Forged By Fire • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Name Jar • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Romiette And Julio • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Dancing Home • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Ninth Ward • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Becoming Naomi Leon • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
One Crazy Summer • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
Boys Without Names • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Riding Freedom • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Sylvia & Aki • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Story Of Ruby Bridges: Special Anniversary Edition (Common Core Exemplar) • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Birchbark House • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Iqbal • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Color of My Words • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10

Materials cost

$736.75

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $67.41

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.05

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$845.21

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$149.15

Total project goal

$994.36

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $994.36

7 Donors

-$872.96

Donations toward project cost

-$845.21

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$121.40

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