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Ms. Fain from Seymour TN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Books That Capture the Imagination

Help me give my students brand new library books to check out in the new year!

  • $789 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Our Title I school is located in a rural area of East Tennessee. We are a small community school with great support from parents, but also great financial need. Our school district is funded below the state average, which results in fewer resources than we often need to help our kids.

Reading is the most important academic skill that students develop in school.

That is why providing students with high-quality books in the library is critical during the elementary years. New books keep the students engaged in the learning process and excited about reading.

My Project

It is so important to provide students with new reading materials. Many popular books and award-winning titles have been released in the last few years and I would love to make these books available to our kids. Books from popular series like Diary of a Wimpy Kid keep them super excited to come to library.

Keeping a good balance of new books on a variety of topics helps ensure there is something for everyone in the school.

With all the new technology children now have, it is wonderful to know that nothing replaces the love of a good book!

Ms. Fain
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Diary of a Wimpy Kid #15 • AKJ Education $10.94 5 $54.70
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls • AKJ Education $31.50 1 $31.50
The Way I Feel • AKJ Education $15.26 1 $15.26
The Invisible String • AKJ Education $15.26 1 $15.26
Free Lunch • AKJ Education $15.26 1 $15.26
How to Think Like a Scientist • AKJ Education $15.20 1 $15.20
Maker Lab • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
The Snowflake • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
Tiny Creatures • AKJ Education $14.39 1 $14.39
Come on, Rain • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
How to Catch a Star • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
The Best Part of Me • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Dancing Hands • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Who Am I?: A Peek-Through-Pages Bood of Endangered Animals • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Island • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
The Three Billy Goats Gruff • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
So Few of Me • AKJ Education $13.50 1 $13.50
Planting Stories • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Global Warming • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Weeds Find a Way • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
11 Experiments That Failed • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Bats Around the Clock • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Ron's Big Mission • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Emmanuel's Dream • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Across the Bay • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Just Ask! • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
My Papi Has a Motorcycle • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Sulwe • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Every Human Has Rights • AKJ Education $13.10 1 $13.10
National Geographic Investigates: The Human Brain • AKJ Education $13.10 1 $13.10
Lety Out Loud • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
First Space Encyclopedia • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
A Friend for Henry • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
13 Planets • AKJ Education $12.37 1 $12.37
This Is Your Time • AKJ Education $11.67 1 $11.67
Vincent's Colors Words And Pictures by Vincent Van Gogh • AKJ Education $11.67 1 $11.67
¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
Thomas Jefferson • AKJ Education $10.00 1 $10.00
Eager • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Number the Stars • AKJ Education $5.78 1 $5.78
Animal Mothers and Babies • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
A Bee's Life • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Keeping Fit With Sports Upper Emergent • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Davy Crockett • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Elliot's Park Haunted Hike • AKJ Education $1.00 1 $1.00
Today Is Halloween • AKJ Education $1.00 1 $1.00

Materials cost

$624.56

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.37

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$669.93

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$118.22

Total project goal

$788.15

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $788.15

9 Donors

-$788.15

Donations toward project cost

-$669.93

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$118.22

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