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Mrs. Alekay from Lakeside AZ is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Class Book Sets Please!

Help me give my students full class sets of books for our novel studies. It is hard to read and follow along if you have to share a book with 2-3 students.

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This will be my third year teaching ELA. Our current book only gives the students small excerpts from the novels and this makes the content hard to relate to. I would really love to have the novels and do a full fledged novel study so that the students can understand the characters, how they change throughout the story as well as understand the rising action, plot twists and be able to compare it to life or a movie.

The class sets will allow me to have a book for every student to read!

These books will fill in the missing gaps in our current selection and allow me to have the books needed for a full year of instruction. Please help me engage our students in the joy of reading!

Mrs. Alekay
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) • Amazon Business $6.99 30 $209.70
Walk Two Moons • AKJ Education $6.56 17 $111.52
Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $5.34 17 $90.78

Materials cost

$412.00

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 $29.46

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$6.18

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$477.64

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$84.29

Total project goal

$561.93

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Total project goal

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 $561.93

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