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Mrs. Lindenbaum from West Grove PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

A Good Book Never Hurt Anyone

Help me give my students the opportunity to read high interest novels that get them excited to read!

  • $773 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Do you remember reading some of your favorite books in middle school? Do you remember wanting to choose your books, but you only had the opportunity to read what your teacher told you to read?

The students in my eighth grade classes want to make their own choices for reading and read what relates to them as individuals rather than being forced to read books chosen by their teachers.

In our classes, we want autonomy to choose what interests us, to write about what is important to us, and the way to do that is to provide choice and options. They are independent and opinionated and ready to share what they know with the world.

My Project

Help me get my 8th graders back into the habit of reading, to learn how to love reading again. Help get them to excited to read about real-life issues that relate to them today and will help them analyze important current issues.

Help them remember how fun and interesting reading can be again!

These novels will allow them not only to choose what interests them, but they will also have the opportunity to see that all reading isn't about classic novels. Choice is key in helping students realize they can find something that interests them and is relevant to their lives right now!

Mrs. Lindenbaum
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks • Amazon Business $13.19 25 $329.75
The Crossover (The Crossover Series) • Amazon Business $7.99 20 $159.80
House Arrest (Young Adult Fiction, Books for Teens) • Amazon Business $6.39 20 $127.80

Materials cost

$617.35

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.26

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$656.61

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$115.87

Total project goal

$772.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$772.48

9 Donors

-$481.23

Donations toward project cost

-$409.05

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$72.18

match offer

-$291.25

Match offer toward project cost

-$247.56

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.69

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$0.00

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