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Mrs. Lunsford from Asheville, NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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2022 Award Winning Books for My Eager Readers Part 2

Help me give my students 2022 Coretta Scott King, Sibert, and the Schneider Family Book award winners and nominee books to know the latest and greatest in children's literature.

  • $444 goal

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My Students

I am the librarian at a small public school which is nestled in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. My school has 150 students of many diverse and unique backgrounds. We are a Title I school with a poverty rate of 97%. Almost 15% of our students are homeless. Numerous families receive weekend food assistance in their child's backpack from our local food bank.

Many of my students are reluctant readers, and academic success does not come easily or quickly.

In our school, we strive to create a warm, safe, and welcoming classrooms while maintaining a fun, creative, learning atmosphere.

My Project

For many of my students, the only library they will ever visit is the school library. Every week I try to expose my students to new literature and to hopefully develop a love of reading via the traditional story time. With my older students, I try to engage them with novels by reading selected chapters and "book talking" several books.

I also believe in using multicultural literature with my students who visit the library, thus I have requested the winners and nominees of the Coretta Scott King illustrator awards.

Additionally, I have requested books about individuals with disabilities, such as the Schneider Family Book Award nominees. These books can help young children better understand about physical and mental challenges. I've asked for library binding or hard cover binding for these books so students can come and enjoy these books for many years.

Having the latest and best children's literature will encourage my students to develop a love of reading to last a lifetime.

With your help, my students will be ready and eager to reach their reading goals!

Mrs. Lunsford
Grades PreK-2

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Boogie Boogie, Y’all • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
A Sky-Blue Bench • Amazon Business $18.95 1 $18.95
De aquí como el coquí (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
My City Speaks • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Summertime Sleepers: Animals That Estivate • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Child of the Flower-Song People: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of the Nahua • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
A Walk in the Words • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
A Bird Will Soar • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Soul Food Sunday • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Nina: A Story of Nina Simone • Amazon Business $14.77 1 $14.77
We Wait for the Sun • Amazon Business $14.69 1 $14.69
A Kind of Spark • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
Juneteenth for Mazie (Fiction Picture Books) • Amazon Business $14.29 1 $14.29
We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know • Amazon Business $13.80 1 $13.80
The People Remember • Amazon Business $13.60 1 $13.60
¡vamos! Let's Cross The Bridge (World of ¡Vamos!) • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Bright Star • Amazon Business $13.43 1 $13.43
Stuntboy, in the Meantime • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49

Materials cost

$317.10

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $24.73

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.76

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$376.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$66.46

Total project goal

$443.05

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $443.05

2 Donors

-$431.99

Donations toward project cost

-$376.59

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.40

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$11.06

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