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Mr. Sones from Richmond, VA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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CRANK up the Banned Book Shelf

Help me give my students the CRANK series to access on their own from my Little Free Library of Banned Books.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Sones's classroom raised $567

This project is fully funded

My Project

I have a Little Free Library bookshelf outside of my classroom that allows students to access books at their will, with autonomy and anonymously (they don't have to ask to take them or return them), and I particularly like to fill it with banned books.

Help stock the Banned Book Shelf of my class Little Free Library, with the CRANK series by Ellen Hopkins.

This project is for 2 complete sets of 11 books in the series and extra copies of the first few books so that students can get started with the series and continue through it as they choose. This series deals with a number of social issues common to teens today, like drug addictions, which is why it gets put on banned book lists, but we don't believe in censorship and encourage our students to address these real issues with resiliency.

Mr. Sones Thomas Jefferson 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.

Equity Focus

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Richmond, VA View local requests

Nearly all 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

400 students impacted 9donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Crank Series Complete 11 Book Set Ellen Hopkins (Burned, Impulse,Glass,Identical, Tricks, Fallout,Perfect,Smoke,Tilt, ,Crank,Rumble) • Amazon Business $205.00 2 $410.00
Fallout (The Crank Trilogy) • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Crank (The Crank Trilogy) • Amazon Business $11.60 1 $11.60
Glass (The Crank Trilogy) • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39

Materials cost

$444.68

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.67

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$481.35

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$84.94

Total project goal

$566.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$566.29

7 Donors

-$441.00

Donations toward project cost

-$374.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$66.15

match offer

-$125.29

Match offer toward project cost

-$106.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.79

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$0.00

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