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Ms. F. from MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Book Group Picks That Make Reading Fun Again!

My students need book group selections that will get them excited to be choosing books and reading with their peers. Like adult readers, they love popular new releases and become rabid fans of current authors!

  • $748 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Each year, I just get plain lucky. My students come from such a wide variety of backgrounds. So many countries, languages, and cultures.

The central component of our classroom is our library.

Well-curated books surround us. We talk books. Trade books. I give books away each Friday in a weekly book raffle. Heck, last year's fourth graders even routinely meander in all day to borrow books from our classroom. It's a wonderful place to be.

A couple of years back during the last week of school, I told the class that we needed to start returning all our books to our classroom library. One boy thumped his head on the table and cried out mournfully, "But I LOVE the library!" Once they find out they can return even as fifth graders (and beyond) and keep borrowing books, though, they usually settle down.

My Project

Like adults, kids crave the newest releases from bestselling authors. I want to start book groups off this year with incredible selections to make Readers Workshop a time they can't WAIT for to begin!

These books are not only some of the best and most engaging reads out there for upper elementary, they will help my more reluctant readers realize that, reading is ACTUALLY WILDLY FUN!

(I finally read the two robot books from the list early this summer and could not put them DOWN. Honestly, every adult should check those out.)

Because what we are teaching kids is not just setting and theme. We are teaching them to turn to books for entertainment. To look to books to grow. We're teaching them what exactly it looks like to be a reader in this world. That books will always be there for them. Patiently waiting!

Ms. F.
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Wild Robot • Amazon Business $13.59 6 $81.54
The Wild Robot Escapes • Amazon Business $12.90 6 $77.40
The War that Saved My Life • Amazon Business $11.89 6 $71.34
The Candymakers • Amazon Business $11.34 6 $68.04
The War I Finally Won • Amazon Business $11.29 6 $67.74
The Report Card • Amazon Business $9.99 6 $59.94
The Emerald Atlas (Books of Beginning) • Amazon Business $8.99 6 $53.94
The Maze of Bones (39 Clues, No. 1) • Amazon Business $8.73 6 $52.38
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing • Amazon Business $5.87 6 $35.22
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery • Amazon Business $4.80 6 $28.80

Materials cost

$596.34

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$635.29

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$112.11

Total project goal

$747.40

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$747.40

8 Donors

-$534.60

Donations toward project cost

-$454.41

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$80.19

Matching donations from our partners

-$212.80

Match offers toward project cost

-$180.88

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.92

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$0.00

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