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Mrs. Dinicola from Concord, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Book Club Books for the Library

Help me give my students the books they need to complete their book club reading projects, books like Booked by Kwame Alexander and Refugee by Alan Gratz.

  • $965 goal

This project expired on July 26, 2019.

This project expired on July 26, 2019.

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

"All that is necessary for a student is access to a library." --Thomas Jefferson, 1790. I am a Teacher Librarian at a middle school in Northern California. My students learn each week the love of learning and the joy of reading. My students visit the library weekly and look forward to seeing what new books have come in and are available to checkout.

My students love the opportunity to find a book that they want to read, along with learning new 21st Century skills.

My students participate in book clubs in their English class at all grade level. The library give students the opportunity to checkout the book club book they chose to continue reading at home. It, also, gives students the opportunity to read one of the other books in the book club that they could not pick.

My students love that the library offers them this opportunity to continue to build their reading skills, their love of reading, and the opportunity to choice something they enjoy to read beyond the required classroom reading.

My Project

Book clubs offer readers a way to develop their reading skills, their comprehension skills, their conversation skills, and their social skills. The students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade break into book clubs each quarter, in their English class, and choose a book to read within that group. Each group reads a different book. These books are in different genres, like historical fiction, graphic novels, fantasy, or dystopian.

The library is a place where students can come to find that book that will take them into this new world.

In English, students get to pick one book from the selection for their book club. Yet in many cases, students find two books that they really want to read. Having copies of the book club books in the library allows students to read that other book that peaked their interest.

Unfortunately, teachers only have enough copies of each book in their classroom to be used during class time. Sometimes students want to be able to continue reading their book at home to do their homework. This is another reason it is important that the library have copies of the books being used in the book clubs in English class.

The main goal of this project is giving students access to these books beyond their classroom, to keep them reading, and continually developing their literacy skills.

Mrs. Dinicola Holbrook Language Academy Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

400 students impacted

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Refugee • AKJ Education $12.40 2 $24.80
Booked • AKJ Education $12.40 2 $24.80
The Things They Carried • AKJ Education $10.15 2 $20.30
The First Rule of Punk • AKJ Education $6.56 3 $19.68
Unwind • AKJ Education $9.48 2 $18.96
Divergent • AKJ Education $9.48 2 $18.96
The Crossover • AKJ Education $9.37 2 $18.74
Wonder • AKJ Education $8.89 2 $17.78
All American Boys • AKJ Education $8.02 2 $16.04
The Pearl • AKJ Education $7.83 2 $15.66
The Last Dog on Earth • AKJ Education $5.10 3 $15.30
Her Right Foot • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
Cinder Book One of the Lunar Chronicles • AKJ Education $7.29 2 $14.58
Life As We Knew It • AKJ Education $7.29 2 $14.58
Farewell to Manzanar • AKJ Education $7.29 2 $14.58
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Malala's Magic Pencil • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Lillian's Right to Vote A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Miles Morales: Spider-Man • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Patina • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Pigman • AKJ Education $6.56 2 $13.12
Things Not Seen • AKJ Education $6.56 2 $13.12
Seedfolks • AKJ Education $6.56 2 $13.12
Beowulf A New Telling • AKJ Education $4.37 3 $13.11
The War I Finally Won • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Sunny • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Ghost Boys • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
The Warden's Daughter • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Gone Crazy in Alabama • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Rebound • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Dragonwings: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1903 • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
Ender's game • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
P.S. Be Eleven • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
Football Hero A Football Genius Novel • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
The Hate U Give • AKJ Education $11.38 1 $11.38
Among The Hidden • AKJ Education $5.59 2 $11.18
One Crazy Summer • AKJ Education $5.59 2 $11.18
The Boy of the Painted Cave • AKJ Education $5.10 2 $10.20
Old Man and the Sea • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
To Kill a Mockingbird • AKJ Education $8.98 1 $8.98
Enchanted Air • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
The Roar • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Brown Girl Dreaming • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
The Breadwinner • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
Hattie Big Sky • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
When Friendship Followed Me Home • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Graveyard Book • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Gatekeepers #1: Raven's Gate • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Fish in a Tree • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
Crenshaw • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Wednesday Wars • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Okay for Now • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Ghost • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Detective's Assistant • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Martian Chronicles • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Bud, Not Buddy • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
Ms. Bixby's Last Day • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Stone Fox: 30th Anniversary Edition • AKJ Education $4.89 1 $4.89
The Dragon's Child A Story of Angel Island • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
White Fang • AKJ Education $3.65 1 $3.65

Materials cost

$713.46

Vendor shipping charges

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Sales tax

 $65.28

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$819.44

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$144.61

Total project goal

$964.05

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