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Mr. Maramara from Orlando FL is requesting Books through DonorsChoose, the #1 classroom funding site for teachers.

Building Our Classroom Library

My students need more exposure to a variety of quality literature that they will use to develop a love for reading.

  • $550 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are hardworking and eager to learn. I love the curiosity that they bring into the classroom each and every day. Their compassion is reflected through their actions and the way they treat each other.

Fostering an early love for reading is my goal.

My students devour the books they get their hands on and they are excited when our trip to the library arrives. Their interests are diverse, as is my class and they enjoy discussing and recommending a great read with one another.

My Project

These books, such as The Giving Tree and From Seed to Plant, will be used to expose my students to quality literature as we cover the 3rd grade ELA standards. The books chosen were selected for their variety in subject matter and student interest. These books will not only be used during mini-lessons, but will also be rotated in and out of our own classroom library for students to investigate further.

My goal is to foster an early love for reading in all of my students.

I want all of my students to become lifelong readers. I'm asking for your help in building our classroom library to help me achieve this goal.

Mr. Maramara
Grades 3-5
More than a third of students from low‑income households

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This project will reach 18 students.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Talking Eggs A Folktale from the American South • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
My Librarian Is a Camel: How Books Are Brought to Children Around the World (Common Core Exemplar) • AKJ Education $15.26 1 $15.26
Flotsam • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
One Hen How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Pink and Say • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Giving Tree • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters An African Tale • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Monarch and Milkweed • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Thing Lou Couldn't Do • AKJ Education $13.10 1 $13.10
The Invisible Boy • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Leo A Ghost Story • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
What If Everybody Did That? • AKJ Education $11.69 1 $11.69
Why I Sneeze, Shiver, Hiccup, & Yawn • AKJ Education $4.37 2 $8.74
Gravity Is a Mystery • AKJ Education $4.37 2 $8.74
Toys! Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Castle • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
Salt in His Shoes Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
If You're Not from the Prairie... • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
When Butterflies Cross the Sky • AKJ Education $6.53 1 $6.53
Water Up, Down, and All Around • AKJ Education $6.53 1 $6.53
Little Red Riding Hood Stories Around the World • AKJ Education $6.26 1 $6.26
Freedom Summer • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Chowder • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Weslandia • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Three Little Wolves And The Big Bad Pig • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Nettie's Trip South • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Day of Ahmed's Secret • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Three Little Pigs • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Squids Will Be Squids Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
They Called Her Molly Pitcher • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Boss Baby • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
A Picture Book of Cesar Chavez • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
From Seed to Plant (Common Core Exemplar) • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Deserts • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Animal Lives: Bees and Wasps • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Teammates • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Butterfly • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
What Makes Day and Night • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
My Soccer Book • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Red Riding Hood • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Germs Make Me Sick! • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Nothing Ever Happens On 90th Street • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Crocodiles & Alligators • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
A Bad Case of Stripes • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
National Geographic Readers: Alligators and Crocodiles • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
National Geographic Readers: Titanic • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
Why Are the Ice Caps Melting? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Milton Hershey? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
What Happens to a Hamburger? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Is Malala Yousafzai? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
National Geographic Readers: Martin Luther King, Jr. • AKJ Education $3.59 1 $3.59
The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
Wash Your Hands! • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
Polar Bears In Danger • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
Scholastic Reader Level 3: Remembering the Titanic • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
The Buck Stops Here • AKJ Education $1.85 1 $1.85
Falcons Nest On Skyscrapers • AKJ Education $1.75 1 $1.75

Materials cost

$430.61

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

State sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.46

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$467.07

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$82.42

Total project goal

$549.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $549.49

6 Donors

-$366.00

Donations toward project cost

-$351.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.00

match offer

-$136.55

Match offer toward project cost

-$116.07

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.48

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$46.94

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 $0.00

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