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Mr. Ostlund from Everson, WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mr. Ostlund's classroom raised $832

Cultural Literacy Must Reads

My students need 4 copies each of 15 book titles, from "Mountains Beyond Mountains" to "The Glass Castle".

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Mr. Ostlund Nooksack Valley High School
Everson, WA Grades 9-12

In our high-need, diverse school district, much value is placed on high quality instruction and differentiation to meet the wide range of our students' needs. Reading great, diverse literature that challenges students will help them prepare for college and citizenship.

Our students can be voracious readers when the opportunity presents itself, but we have to work hard to keep current, engaging, and culturally relevant books on the shelves of our classroom libraries. These books will provide a wide variety of students access to important literature.

Having copies of culturally important titles on the classroom library shelves will provide challenge to those students preparing for college. The titles are relevant, innovative, and perfectly suited to our students seeking great fiction and non-fiction.

Contributing to this project will give our students a chance to challenge their thinking, to see literature as a human experience and share in it with others. The titles are current, relevant, and students will feel part of that ongoing academic dialog about literature.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

120 students impacted 10 donors
Mr. Ostlund Nooksack Valley High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Everson, WA 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

120 students impacted 10donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World Tracy Kidder • Barnes and Noble $10.36 4 $41.44
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz • Barnes and Noble $11.20 4 $44.80
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski • Barnes and Noble $13.59 4 $54.36
Columbine Dave Cullen • Barnes and Noble $11.99 4 $47.96
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences Truman Capote • Barnes and Noble $12.00 4 $48.00
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah • Barnes and Noble $9.60 4 $38.40
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd Richard Zacks • Barnes and Noble $4.98 4 $19.92
Eeeee Eee Eeee Tao Lin • Barnes and Noble $11.96 4 $47.84
Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together Ron Hall, Denver Moore, As Told to Lynn Vincent • Barnes and Noble $11.99 4 $47.96
The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls • Barnes and Noble $12.00 4 $48.00
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin • Barnes and Noble $10.40 4 $41.60
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game Michael Lewis • Barnes and Noble $11.16 4 $44.64
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving • Barnes and Noble $12.80 4 $51.20
Buried Onions Gary Soto • Barnes and Noble $6.25 4 $25.00
Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida Victor Martinez, Steve Scott (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.39 4 $21.56

Materials cost

$622.68

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $40.47

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.34

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$681.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$149.60

Total project goal

$831.09

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $831.09

6 Donors

-$120.60

Donations toward project cost

-$110.70

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.90

match offer

-$696.09

Match offer toward project cost

-$570.79

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$125.30

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$14.40

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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