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Mr. Sheffield from Antioch CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Developing My Classroom Library

Help me give my students some of the best works for their age group.

  • 5 donors
  • $976 still needed

expires Aug 14

  • 5 donors
  • $976 still needed
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My Project

An endlessly high, broad, deep, and wide world of ideas is opened to the one who excels in the reading and writing about literature. Practice makes better, moreover, and one area that I would love to see my students improve is in their reading so that they might have greater access to this wonderful world of ideas.

A lot of the texts that I've included are ones that I'd love to use for relationship building as well—both with myself and other students.

There's nothing like having great conversation around great books. Hence, the particular books on the list.

Please help to make this dream possible by contributing to this cause—you will be benefitting students for many, many years.

Mr. Sheffield
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The H. G. Wells Collection: Deluxe 6-Book Hardcover Boxed Set (Arcturus Collector's Classics, 8) • Amazon Business $59.99 1 $59.99
Madeleine L'Engle: The Kairos Novels: The Wrinkle in Time and Polly O'Keefe Quartets: A Library of America Boxed Set • Amazon Business $54.60 1 $54.60
Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7) • Amazon Business $45.44 1 $45.44
The Classic Charles Dickens Collection: 6-Book Paperback Boxed Set (Arcturus Classic Collections, 1) • Amazon Business $31.92 1 $31.92
The King Must Die; The Bull from the Sea: Introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) • Amazon Business $29.07 1 $29.07
Foundation 3-Book Boxed Set: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation • Amazon Business $26.40 1 $26.40
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Boxed Set (Books 1-3): THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, PATRIOT GAMES, and THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN • Amazon Business $23.56 1 $23.56
J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings • Amazon Business $20.77 1 $20.77
Things Fall Apart (Everyman's Library) • Amazon Business $19.90 1 $19.90
The Gary Paulsen Collection (Boxed Set): Dancing Carl; Dogsong; Hatchet; Woodsong • Amazon Business $18.79 1 $18.79
Cry, the Beloved Country (Scribner Classics) • Amazon Business $16.31 1 $16.31
The Plague: A new translation by Laura Marris • Amazon Business $16.24 1 $16.24
To Kill a Mockingbird • Amazon Business $16.00 1 $16.00
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl By Anne Frank • Amazon Business $15.89 1 $15.89
The Pearl (Centennial Edition) • Amazon Business $14.27 1 $14.27
A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
The Hiding Place • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Les Miserables (Word Cloud Classics) • Amazon Business $13.19 1 $13.19
Dicey's Song (2) (The Tillerman Cycle) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
A Solitary Blue (3) (The Tillerman Cycle) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Treasure Island (Wordsworth Collector's Editions) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Pride and Prejudice (Wordsworth Collector's Editions) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
Flowers For Algernon • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
So Big: A Novel • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Homecoming (1) (The Tillerman Cycle) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
All Things Bright and Beautiful: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor (All Creatures Great and Small) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
The Giver 25th Anniversary Edition: A Newbery Award Winner (Giver Quartet) • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Silence: A Novel (Picador Classics) • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Paperback Holes Book By Louis Sachar, Grades 4th - 12th (ING0440414806) • Quill.com $11.33 1 $11.33
The Golden Fleece: And the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Catcher in the Rye • Amazon Business $10.96 1 $10.96
Ishmael:A Novel • Amazon Business $10.69 1 $10.69
Animal Farm: 1984 • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Pilgrim´s Progress | Complete And Unabridged Edition | Parts 1 & 2 • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Kidnapped (Illustrated Classic): 100th Anniversary Collection • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Man's Search for Meaning: Young Adult Edition: Young Adult Edition • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, 1) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Wordsworth Collector's Editions) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Martian Chronicles • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Tomorrow, When the War Began (The Tomorrow Series #1) • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
Lord of the Flies • AKJ Education $8.76 1 $8.76
Night • AKJ Education $8.76 1 $8.76
His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife (Book 2) • Amazon Business $8.45 1 $8.45
His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1) • Amazon Business $8.07 1 $8.07
Sons from Afar (6) (The Tillerman Cycle) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Come a Stranger (5) (The Tillerman Cycle) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
All Creatures Great and Small • Amazon Business $7.97 1 $7.97
The Sun Also Rises: The Original Classic Edition by Ernest Hemingway - Unabridged and Annotated For Modern Readers and Book Clubs • Amazon Business $7.93 1 $7.93
His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass (Book 3) • Amazon Business $7.81 1 $7.81
Ender's Game • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • Amazon Business $7.20 1 $7.20
The Call of the Wild • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Tracker • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Tuck Everlasting • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Heart of Darkness • Amazon Business $6.49 1 $6.49
The Left Hand of Darkness: 50th Anniversary Edition • Amazon Business $6.19 1 $6.19
Jane Eyre (Signet Classics) • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Wordsworth Classics) • Amazon Business $5.49 1 $5.49

Materials cost

$878.20

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $80.36

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.17

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,001.73

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$176.78

Total project goal

$1,178.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,178.51

2 Donors

-$190.00

Donations toward project cost

-$172.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$12.94

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $975.56

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