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Ms. Ernst from Wichita KS is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Bringing a Library to Sophomores

Help me give my students novels that interest them and are readily available to them in my classroom.

  • $172 goal

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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

I have classes full of reluctant readers who are in need of the next great book to get them interested in reading. About 86% of our students are on free-and-reduced lunches. It is often agonizing to get a student to pick up a book.

My desire is that I will be able to have a variety of literature in my classroom so that my students can have a new experience at their fingertips.

While my personal collection is vast, it is a little too outdated for my students.

My Project

My students struggle to find books that interest them. The goal of this project is to keep a book in their hands that is relevant to them. They are interested in real life issues that impact their own lives. Books like "Dear Martin" and "Monday's Not Coming" serve this purpose and allow for my students to see themselves in the protagonist.

My goal is to find each student a book that they can fall in love with in order to foster reading in our society once again.

These books will allow them to look through the window of another person's life or to allow them self-reflection in the book that mirrors their own life.

Ms. Ernst
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Eleanor & Park: Exclusive Special Edition • Amazon Business $12.91 1 $12.91
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
Monday's Not Coming • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
Dread Nation • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
All American Boys • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Midnight at the Electric • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
American Street • Amazon Business $7.55 1 $7.55
Allegedly • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
Dear Martin • Amazon Business $7.40 1 $7.40
Monster: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
The Rule of One • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79

Materials cost

$106.66

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $7.52

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.60

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$145.78

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$25.73

Total project goal

$171.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $171.51

3 Donors

-$153.86

Donations toward project cost

-$145.78

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.08

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.65

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