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Bound by Biographies

Help me give my students biographies that will be engaging and informative for their curious minds.

  • 1 donor
  • $936 still needed

expires Aug 20

  • 1 donor
  • $936 still needed
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My Project

My students have a wide variety of interests and in people who have made their mark on the world. Biographies are a great way to introduce students to the lives of people who have made an impact.

My students would like more engaging and interesting biographies concerning a wider range of important people from the past and present.

Having access to credible biographies that also are approachable for them to feel compelled to read is incredibly important for me as their librarian.

I hope to add these titles to the biography section and engage my students in their exploration of the world and how it can be shaped by people.

Mrs. Simasko
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Who Was...? Children’s Biography Series Set of 12 books • Amazon Business $65.23 1 $65.23
Who Is Stevie Wonder? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $6.99 2 $13.98
Who Is Wayne Gretzky? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $6.99 2 $13.98
Who Is Temple Grandin? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $6.99 2 $13.98
Who Is Jeff Kinney? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $6.98 2 $13.96
What Was the Children's Blizzard of 1888? • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
What Is the Women's World Cup? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
What Is the Story of the Headless Horseman? • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
What Is Congress? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $7.89 1 $7.89
Who Was Steve Irwin? • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Who Is Judy Blume? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Who Is Shaquille O'Neal? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Who Was P. T. Barnum? • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921? • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Knock! Knock! Who Was There? • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Who Was Jim Henson? • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Who Was Elvis Presley? • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Who Was Lucille Ball? • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
What Is the Story of Nancy Drew? • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Who Was Jim Thorpe? • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Who Was? Trivia Book • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Who Was Genghis Khan? • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Who Is David Beckham? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Who Was Bob Marley? • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
Who Were the Beatles? (Who Was--?) • Amazon Business $6.93 1 $6.93
Who Was Sitting Bull? • Amazon Business $6.89 1 $6.89
Who Was Sam Walton? • Amazon Business $6.89 1 $6.89
Who Was Jesse Owens? • Amazon Business $6.80 1 $6.80
Who Was Winston Churchill? • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
Who Was Louis Braille? • Amazon Business $6.78 1 $6.78
What Is the Stanley Cup? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $6.70 1 $6.70
Who Was Babe Ruth? • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
Who Was John F. Kennedy? • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
Who Was Maria Tallchief? • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
Who Is R. L. Stine? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
Who Were the Navajo Code Talkers? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
Who Was Edgar Allan Poe? • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
Who Was Alex Trebek? • Amazon Business $6.21 1 $6.21
What Is the Story of Frankenstein? • Amazon Business $6.19 1 $6.19
What Is the Supreme Court? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $6.19 1 $6.19
Who Was Michelangelo? • Amazon Business $6.16 1 $6.16
Who Is Steven Spielberg? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $6.16 1 $6.16
Who Was Alexander Graham Bell? • Amazon Business $6.14 1 $6.14
Who Was Queen Elizabeth II? • Amazon Business $6.01 1 $6.01
Who Was Alexander the Great? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was David Bowie? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Pelé? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Juliette Gordon Low? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Steve Jobs? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Nelson Mandela? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Is Cristiano Ronaldo? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Stan Lee? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Harry Houdini? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Jane Austen? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Mister Rogers? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Frederick Douglass? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Frida Kahlo? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Were The Three Stooges? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Roberto Clemente? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Is Neil deGrasse Tyson? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.79 1 $5.79
Who Was Selena? • Amazon Business $5.69 1 $5.69
Who Is the Dalai Lama? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.69 1 $5.69
Who Was Betty White? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $5.61 1 $5.61
Who Was Napoleon? • Amazon Business $5.59 1 $5.59
Who Was Jackie Robinson? • Amazon Business $5.58 1 $5.58
Who Is LeBron James? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.58 1 $5.58
Who Was Paul Revere? • Amazon Business $5.49 1 $5.49
Who Was Blackbeard? • Amazon Business $5.49 1 $5.49
What Was the Harlem Renaissance? • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
What Was the Hindenburg? • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
Who Was Muhammad Ali? • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
Who Was Coretta Scott King? • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
Who Was Bruce Lee? • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
Who Is George Lucas? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
What Was World War I? • Amazon Business $5.19 1 $5.19
Who Was Aretha Franklin? • Amazon Business $5.08 1 $5.08
Who Is Colin Kaepernick? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Was Kobe Bryant? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Was Galileo? • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Was Booker T. Washington? • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Was Nikola Tesla? • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Is Tom Brady? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Was Julius Caesar? • Amazon Business $4.79 1 $4.79
Who Is Michael Jordan? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $4.78 1 $4.78
Who Is Simone Biles? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $4.78 1 $4.78
Who Was Maya Angelou? • Amazon Business $4.78 1 $4.78
Who Was Theodore Roosevelt? • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74
What Is NASA? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74
Who Was Henry Ford? • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74
What Was the Great Depression? • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74
Who Was Anne Frank? • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74
Who Was Seabiscuit? • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74
Who Was Leonardo da Vinci? • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74
What Is the World Series? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $4.41 1 $4.41
Who Is Zendaya? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who was Thomas Jefferson? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Louis Armstrong? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Milton Hershey? • Amazon Business $3.89 1 $3.89

Materials cost

$688.39

Vendor shipping charges

 $80.00

Sales tax

 $10.33

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.33

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$819.05

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$144.54

Total project goal

$963.59

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $963.59

1 Donor

-$28.00

Donations toward project cost

-$23.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$4.20

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 $935.59

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