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Ms. Dalton from Healdsburg CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Bring Diverse Voices into our Classroom Library!

Help me give my students book sets so we can read, learn, and discover together!

  • $1,607 goal

This project expired on March 28, 2024.

This project expired on March 28, 2024.

My Project

My students love reading novels with fresh voices, and we are lucky to have a copy of many wonderful books for them to choose from. What we would love even more is to have sets of these books so that every student can read them and we can discuss and learn from them as a class.

We are hoping to bring full sets of these novels into our classroom so that we can go through a text together, analyze the reading, explore the author's writing skills and techniques, and enjoy the stories as a class.

We will be implementing "book clubs" as well so that students are able to have more "air time" to share their thoughts, questions, predictions, and connections with these meaningful texts.

The books on our list tell stories that many of my students can relate to-- stories of feeling different, of living in a contrast of two cultures (family and school), of overcoming challenges and embracing differences. We need these diverse, modern, and important voices, written in a variety of styles, in our students' hands!

Ms. Dalton
Grades 3-5

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Fish in a Tree • Amazon Business $10.39 22 $228.58
El Deafo • Amazon Business $9.89 22 $217.58
Stargazing • AKJ Education $9.48 22 $208.56
The One-Minute Gratitude Journal • Amazon Business $6.99 22 $153.78
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 • AKJ Education $6.56 20 $131.20
One Crazy Summer: A Newbery Honor Award Winner • Amazon Business $6.99 18 $125.82
Peacemaker • Amazon Business $7.99 15 $119.85
Out of My Mind • AKJ Education $7.29 3 $21.87

Materials cost

$1,207.24

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $110.46

3rd party payment processing fee

$18.11

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,365.81

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$241.03

Total project goal

$1,606.84

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