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Ms. McClain from Bloomingdale, GA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building a Classroom Library and Lifelong Readers

My students need a variety of young adult literature for a classroom library.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. McClain's classroom raised $405

This project is fully funded

My Students

“Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students' hands? Shouldn't this be a front-burner issue at all times?” -Kelly Gallagher

As a first-year teacher this year, I was both surprised at how many of my students voiced a love for "reading for fun" and dismayed at the lack of resources I had to offer them.

With only two full-length books required in my state's English curriculum, I was nervous that my students' love for reading would wane with such limited reading material with which to connect. Therefore, I implemented "free reading time" to begin every class: a period of around ten minutes where students can spend some time reading outside the curriculum. Because I didn't have any books to offer my students, I brought them to the school's small library to try to find some on their own, and my heart melted seeing the number of students excited about finding books that interested them and finding a quiet place to sit down and start them. I would like my own classroom to be a place where students can have similar experiences.

My Project

Therefore, I would like to start my own classroom library so that I can ensure that students will have both choice and guidance in their selections for free reading time and that all students have books to read regardless of their circumstance. The school I work with rests on the verge of being inner city, and it is important to me that I provide my students with the resources they need to succeed both academically and in their own personal lives. I hope that by providing students with a large variety of books, their love for reading will be further solidified and stay with them as they grow through high school.

I don't think I can stress enough how invaluable books are for students, especially ones with limited opportunities and resources for uncovering their own truths about themselves and the world around them.

I would be so grateful to have help starting my classroom's library, and hopefully as I continue teaching through the years I'll be able to turn it into something really wonderful.

Ms. McClain New Hampstead High School Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Bloomingdale, GA View local requests

More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

103 students impacted 15donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Playlist for the Dead • Amazon Business $13.29 1 $13.29
The Breaks of the Game • Amazon Business $12.83 1 $12.83
The Motherless Oven • Amazon Business $12.46 1 $12.46
Fever Pitch • Amazon Business $11.09 1 $11.09
Friday Night Lights, 25th Anniversary Edition: A Town, a Team, and a Dream • Amazon Business $10.19 1 $10.19
Hole in My Life • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Monster • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Sumo • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
Eleanor & Park • Amazon Business $9.76 1 $9.76
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian • Amazon Business $9.63 1 $9.63
Anya's Ghost • Amazon Business $9.63 1 $9.63
Romeo and Juliet • Amazon Business $9.41 1 $9.41
The Final Four • Amazon Business $9.18 1 $9.18
Trash • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Through the Woods • Amazon Business $8.92 1 $8.92
Speak • Amazon Business $8.88 1 $8.88
Wonder • Amazon Business $8.41 1 $8.41
I Hunt Killers (Jasper Dent) • Amazon Business $8.21 1 $8.21
Boy21 • Amazon Business $7.84 1 $7.84
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time • Amazon Business $7.68 1 $7.68
The Perks of Being a Wallflower • Amazon Business $7.50 1 $7.50
Frindle • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Hatchet • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Catcher in the Rye • Amazon Business $6.74 1 $6.74
The Beginning of Everything • Amazon Business $6.31 1 $6.31
The Maze Runner (Book 1) • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
Holes • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
The Boys of Summer (Harperperennial Modern Classics) • Amazon Business $5.90 1 $5.90
Coach Carter • Amazon Business $5.82 1 $5.82
Paper Towns • Amazon Business $5.72 1 $5.72
An Abundance of Katherines • Amazon Business $5.72 1 $5.72
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children) • Amazon Business $5.71 1 $5.71
The Outsiders • Amazon Business $5.65 1 $5.65
Looking for Alaska • Amazon Business $5.65 1 $5.65
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Young Reader's Choice Award - Intermediate Division) • Amazon Business $5.36 1 $5.36

Materials cost

$289.20

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $19.95

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.34

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$343.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$60.62

Total project goal

$404.11

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $404.11

13 Donors

-$268.22

Donations toward project cost

-$228.74

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.48

match offer

-$135.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$114.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.89

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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