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Mrs. Payette from Somerville, MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building a Diverse and Engaging Library

Help me give my students more engaging texts to read in our class!

  • $524 goal

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You can complete this project for $110.
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Help Mrs. Payette

Mrs. Payette has another project! Donate to Starting the Year Off Right With an Updated Classroom Library! to help her classroom.

All donations currently matched!
You can complete this project for $110.
1.5X

My Project

Hi everyone, thank you so much for considering supporting my project. I am a reading and social studies teacher and I am determined to have the best classroom library possible. There are so many amazing new books that I can't keep up myself. I love sharing diverse and unique books with my class and I would love your help to fill my library with the most amazing selection!

Being able to find a book to connect to each of my students, their culture and their needs, is so important to me.

One of my greatest joys as a teacher is when I am able to find the perfect book to share with each of my students!

Mrs. Payette Winter Hill Community Innovation School Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Somerville, MA View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

50 students impacted 6donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
NEW! History Smashers Series Complete 7 Books Collection • Amazon Business $59.63 1 $59.63
Pandava Rick Riordan Presents Aru Shah Series Books 1 - 5 Collection by Roshani Chokshi (End of Time, Song of Death, Tree of Wishes, City of Gold & Nectar of Immortality) • Amazon Business $37.99 1 $37.99
Magic Tree House Graphic Novel Starter Set: (A Graphic Novel Boxed Set) (Magic Tree House (R)) • Amazon Business $34.99 1 $34.99
Escape from a Video Game: The Complete Series • Amazon Business $24.99 1 $24.99
I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 (I Survived Graphic Novel #7) (I Survived Graphix) • Amazon Business $9.89 2 $19.78
A Seed in the Sun • Amazon Business $15.49 1 $15.49
The Awakening Storm: A Graphic Novel (City of Dragons #1) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Secret Garden: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
The Feather Chase: (The Crime-Solving Cousins Mysteries Book 1) • Amazon Business $10.69 1 $10.69
Squished: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $10.39 1 $10.39
The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 1) • Amazon Business $10.06 1 $10.06
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Witches of Brooklyn: (A Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $9.92 1 $9.92
I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 (I Survived Graphic Novel #8) (I Survived Graphix) • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Spy School • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Alone • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Spy School the Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $8.84 1 $8.84
Invisible: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $8.82 1 $8.82
Minecraft Volume 1 (Graphic Novel) (Minecraft, 1) • Amazon Business $8.36 1 $8.36
I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001: A Graphic Novel (I Survived Graphic Novel #4) (4) (I Survived Graphix) • Amazon Business $8.24 1 $8.24
I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 (I Survived Graphix) • Amazon Business $8.00 1 $8.00
Finn and the Time-Traveling Pajamas (The Finniverse series) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The List of Things That Will Not Change • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Who Is the Man in the Air?: Michael Jordan: A Who HQ Graphic Novel (Who HQ Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
InvestiGators: Braver and Boulder (InvestiGators, 5) • Amazon Business $7.91 1 $7.91
Trapped in a Video Game: The Invisible Invasion (Volume 2) • Amazon Business $7.86 1 $7.86
InvestiGators: Ants in Our P.A.N.T.S. (InvestiGators, 4) • Amazon Business $7.27 1 $7.27
Who Is Tibet's Exiled Leader?: The 14th Dalai Lama: An Official Who HQ Graphic Novel (Who HQ Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
InvestiGators (InvestiGators, 1) • Amazon Business $6.74 1 $6.74
Who Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?: Rosa Parks: A Who HQ Graphic Novel (Who HQ Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $6.59 1 $6.59
What Is Nintendo? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$409.11

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.14

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$445.25

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$78.57

Total project goal

$523.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $523.82

5 Donors

-$260.44

Donations toward project cost

-$223.87

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$36.57

match offer

-$260.45

Match offer toward project cost

-$221.38

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.07

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.94

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