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Ms. Parrett from Hillsboro OR is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books Students Want; It Makes a Difference!

Help me give my students books they want: Young Reader's Choice Award Books and fun Graphic Novels! Students chose these titles to add to the library so they, and their friends, can read books they will love.

  • 2 donors
  • $261 goal

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My Project

All of the requested books are titles that our middle schoolers - not staff- chose. That is important because self-selected reading is twice as powerful as teacher-selected reading in developing motivation and comprehension. Students who have the opportunity to choose what they read, read more, understand more, and are more likely to continue to read for pleasure throughout their life. Children who read for pleasure are likely to do significantly better in school than their peers who rarely read.

One great way to support children’s reading is by providing books they choose.

Our students are thrilled to have their voices heard and their book choices respected. In a student survey, 100% of respondents said they want the library to reflect their book choices. They want to come to the library, check out self-selected books, and read them.

These books will be read. All 7th graders, year after year, will be exposed to these books and more during the quarterly "Speed Dating with a Book" program. Seven titles are part of the Pacific Northwest Library Association's annual contest: Young Reader's Choice Award. Thirteen titles on the list are fun, light-hearted graphic novels. We expose students to all genres of books during the "speed dating" With this program, students often find books they love and would otherwise never have known about. The result is more students self-selecting books to read for pleasure. All of the titles on this list are rated 4.5 stars and above, and some are up for student awards.

Ms. Parrett
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Look on the Bright Side • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Just Roll with It: (A Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Me (Moth): (National Book Award Finalist) • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Surprisingly Sarah (Emmie & Friends) • Amazon Business $11.26 1 $11.26
Buzzing (A Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $11.04 1 $11.04
Squished: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $10.39 1 $10.39
Stacey's Mistake: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #14) (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix) • Amazon Business $10.38 1 $10.38
Claudia and the Bad Joke: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-sitters Club #15) (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix) • Amazon Business $10.38 1 $10.38
Truly Tyler (Emmie & Friends) • Amazon Business $9.63 1 $9.63
Blackout: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
Unplugged • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Six Crimson Cranes • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
The Not-So-Uniform Life of Holly-Mei (A Holly-Mei Book, 1) • Amazon Business $8.69 1 $8.69
Kristy and the Snobs: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #10) (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix) • Amazon Business $8.64 1 $8.64
Four Eyes: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $8.60 1 $8.60
The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Starfish • Amazon Business $7.18 1 $7.18
The Accidental Apprentice (1) (Wilderlore) • Amazon Business $6.39 1 $6.39

Materials cost

$188.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$221.33

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$39.06

Total project goal

$260.39

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $260.39

1 Donor

-$111.00

Donations toward project cost

-$111.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$129.80

Match offer toward project cost

-$110.33

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.47

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$19.59

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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