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Mrs. Peterson from South Saint Paul MN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

A Reader Is a Leader

Help me give my students new, fun and exciting books to read in our classroom!

  • $158 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students have a large love of learning and are from a very supportive community that values education! These students love to come to school and work hard every day! My students have diverse socioeconomic, cultural, and family backgrounds, but all come together each and every day for the same reason. They strive to learn not only to become fantastic readers and to be great mathematicians but also to be good friends, community members, and to embrace life's challenges as a thinker and problem solver!

My Project

These new books will allow my students to broaden their reading interests and introduce them to some books that are award winning.

We all love discovering new stories and diving into our imagination when we are reading and discovering a world different than our own.

New books on the shelf in our classroom is exciting and helps the students to grow as readers, students, learners and young people. I love to hear them discussing new books and recommending books to each other and to me. Some of the best books I have read lately were recommended to me by my fourth graders!

Reading is exciting and a gift that all students should have access to!

Mrs. Peterson
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
LapGear Compact Lap Desk - Black - Fits up to 13.3 Inch Laptops - Style No. 43108 • Amazon Business $9.99 2 $19.98
Mind Reader Monitor Stand, Monitor Riser for Computer, Laptop, Desk, iMac, Metal Mesh, Black • Amazon Business $14.96 1 $14.96
Shouting at the Rain • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
There's A Boy in the Girls' Bathroom • Amazon Business $7.52 1 $7.52
The Losers Club • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Towers Falling • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
The Thing About Jellyfish • Amazon Business $6.94 1 $6.94
The Hundred Dresses • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
Soar • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
The Parker Inheritance (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $5.59 1 $5.59
The Great Gilly Hopkins • Amazon Business $4.69 1 $4.69

Materials cost

$102.41

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.54

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$133.95

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$23.64

Total project goal

$157.59

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$157.59

1 Donor

-$157.59

Donations toward project cost

-$133.95

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.64

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$0.00

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