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Ms. Schmidt from Milwaukee WI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books for Boredom

Help me give my student tangible books to read during our time outside of the school building.

  • $176 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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

One student doesn't seem like much, but one student matters. This student has two favorite activities...playing with her younger sister and reading. At school, she is a voracious reader who chews through books like no tomorrow; however, since the COVID-19 pandemic began, she doesn't have access to books.

My Project

Some students hate reading, others like it, and for others, it is a deep passion. These students depend on the school library to feed their hungry minds. One problem, currently, I have a student who has read every book in her house and has no way of accessing more. For her, books are like air filling her with life, escape, and freedom. You may think, that the library is a place to get books. Usually, you would be correct, but for this young lady, a library is a limited option. They have no way of getting to the library as their only vehicle is utilized by her father to get to and from work.

There is something magical when a book is yours to keep.

The smell and excitement are not quite the same from a library or borrowed from a friend. I believe that by helping to grow this young lady's library, that she will continue to grow in her academic skills as well as her English Language Skills. She has a younger sister that I know she reads too, so these books would serve the entire family.

Please help me to give this young lady the library that she has always dreamed of having in her house.

Ms. Schmidt
Grades 6-8

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
A Kid's Guide to Latino History: More than 50 Activities (A Kid's Guide series) • Amazon Business $16.95 1 $16.95
Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Case Closed?: Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science • Amazon Business $10.71 1 $10.71
Brainwashed: Crime Travelers Spy School Mystery & International Adventure Series Book 1 • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Sofia Valdez, Future Prez (The Questioneers) • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Where the Red Fern Grows • Amazon Business $7.89 1 $7.89
Matilda • Amazon Business $7.88 1 $7.88
Dark Life • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Wayside School Is Falling Down • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition • Amazon Business $6.70 1 $6.70
Bridge to Terabithia • Amazon Business $6.69 1 $6.69
Sideways Stories from Wayside School • Amazon Business $6.30 1 $6.30

Materials cost

$117.75

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.77

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$149.52

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$26.39

Total project goal

$175.91

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $175.91

3 Donors

-$134.57

Donations toward project cost

-$115.88

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.69

match offer

-$39.58

Match offer toward project cost

-$33.64

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.94

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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