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Ms. Royal from Washington DC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Beautiful Bold Books!

Help me give my students everything they could ever dream to read and more. They deserve to explore a world of literature that will challenge their thinking and open the doors to new possibilities.

  • $591 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My 4th and 5th-grade students are young, eager, and intelligent scholars. They love to explore their own thinking, ask questions, and imagine what the world has to offer through the use of graphic novels, biographies, poetry, and so much more. My students have worked hard to grow their love for reading, however, they are not often exposed to the best texts that capture their interest.

In order to do that, they need a classroom library with a variety of books that are on their level and of THEIR interest.

"I enjoy reading poetry, but I don't have many options. Personally, I would like some new books but we don't have many opportunities to get new poetry books. I would like books that represent and reflect who I am, that have black people in them, are created by black authors, drawings by black illustrators. That would be nice."

-4th Grade Student

My students deserve access to high-quality and diverse books that reflect their own experiences. Please support my 4th and 5th graders as they work hard on their journey to high school, college, and beyond.

My Project

Our classroom library theme is "Read Like a Champion Today," and students fall in love with "filling out medals." Each medal represents a book they have read independently. In addition to the many hours' students spend with eyes on a text in class each day, my students commit to reading their independent reading books each night for at least 20 minutes. They take pride in being able to display their completion of a book through the medal that is posted in our library.

Students can only fill out medals, however, if they have access to high-quality, diverse books in our classroom library.

The students love to track their medals throughout the year to compete against themselves to see how many amazing new books they can read.

Ms. Royal
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Jason Reynolds's Track Series Paperback Collection: Ghost; Patina; Sunny; Lu • Amazon Business $21.38 1 $21.38
I Am Enough • Amazon Business $13.82 1 $13.82
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race • Amazon Business $13.61 1 $13.61
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Other Words for Home • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
The Bridge Home • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History • Amazon Business $12.39 1 $12.39
WHO DO YOU SEE? THE STRUGGLES OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN TEENAGE BOY • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
All the Greys on Greene Street • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Genesis Begins Again • Amazon Business $11.59 1 $11.59
A Good Kind of Trouble • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
For Black Girls Like Me • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
Last Stop on Market Street • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
The Hate U Give Collector's Edition • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
One of Us Is Lying • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (Vashti Harrison) • Amazon Business $10.26 1 $10.26
On The Come Up • Amazon Business $9.45 1 $9.45
Blended • Amazon Business $9.17 1 $9.17
Wishtree • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Pants Project • Amazon Business $8.59 1 $8.59
Some Places More Than Others • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer (A Legendary Alston Boys Adventure) • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
Some Places More Than Others • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
The First Rule of Punk • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Running through Sprinklers • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Tight • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
New Kid • Amazon Business $7.79 1 $7.79
New Kid • Amazon Business $7.79 1 $7.79
The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Those Shoes • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Saving Winslow • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Most Valuable Players: A Rip & Red Book (Rip and Red) • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
The Night Diary • Amazon Business $6.49 1 $6.49
Miles Morales: Spider-Man (A Marvel YA Novel) • Amazon Business $6.23 1 $6.23
Rookie of the Year (Rip and Red) • Amazon Business $6.19 1 $6.19
WHOLE NEW BALLGAME (Rip and Red) • Amazon Business $6.19 1 $6.19
I Love My Hair! • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Best Friends (Real Friends) • Amazon Business $5.79 1 $5.79
Piecing Me Together • Amazon Business $5.79 1 $5.79
Black Panther: The Battle for Wakanda (A Mighty Marvel Chapter Book) • Amazon Business $5.69 1 $5.69
Dear Martin • Amazon Business $5.48 1 $5.48
Tournament of Champions (Rip and Red) • Amazon Business $5.29 1 $5.29
Black Panther The Young Prince • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
The Goldfish Boy • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
The Stars Beneath Our Feet • Amazon Business $4.79 1 $4.79
Ms. Bixby's Last Day • Amazon Business $4.69 1 $4.69
Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights • Amazon Business $4.05 1 $4.05

Materials cost

$439.23

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $26.35

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.59

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$502.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.62

Total project goal

$590.79

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $590.79

39 Donors

-$589.91

Donations toward project cost

-$502.17

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$87.74

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.88

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