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Ms. Stephens from Jonesboro GA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Engaging Readers and Lifelong Learners

Help me give my students award-winning books and reference materials to enjoy daily!

  • $355 goal

This project expired on May 16, 2020.

This project expired on May 16, 2020.

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My students are energetic and creative middle school students. They love technology, and they do a great job with project-based tasks. I would like to give them more resources to use for projects and independent reading. My students are curious and love to learn about new topics.

I want to encourage my students to continue reading for pleasure, and I want to make sure that they develop into life-long readers.

My students do not all have access to a variety of reading material right now so I want to provide materials that are readily available at school. I hope to build resources so that they can have access to engaging reading materials at any time.

My Project

Students become better readers the more that they read. It only takes one special book to hook a child for life. My goal is to find those books for my students and make them accessible every day. I also hope that my students will began to encourage each other to read once they become more engaged themselves.

Having a variety of books readily available in my classroom will make these goals much more achievable.

This classroom library will include fiction and nonfiction. It will also include award-winning books that will expose students to a variety of genres and introduce them to new and exciting types of books.

Ms. Stephens
Never Before Funded Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race • Amazon Business $13.74 1 $13.74
Hello, Universe • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Caldecott Honor Book) • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything!) (National Geographic Kids) • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
The Poet X • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Book of Boy • Amazon Business $10.83 1 $10.83
Fallen Angels • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Wonder • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
I Am the Messenger • Amazon Business $8.88 1 $8.88
Merci Suxe1rez Changes Gears • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
The Graveyard Book • Amazon Business $8.38 1 $8.38
Monster • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The House of the Scorpion • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Sun Is Also a Star • Amazon Business $7.80 1 $7.80
The Egypt Game • Amazon Business $7.69 1 $7.69
Hoot • Amazon Business $7.54 1 $7.54
Rules (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
The One and Only Ivan • Amazon Business $7.17 1 $7.17
Flush • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Locomotion • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz) • Amazon Business $6.69 1 $6.69
Running Out of Time • Amazon Business $6.49 1 $6.49
The Wednesday Wars • Amazon Business $6.39 1 $6.39
Mockingbird • Amazon Business $6.19 1 $6.19
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry • Amazon Business $5.69 1 $5.69
Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy) • Amazon Business $5.54 1 $5.54
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet) • Amazon Business $5.35 1 $5.35
The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics) • Amazon Business $5.00 1 $5.00
National Geographic Readers: Penguins! • Amazon Business $4.50 1 $4.50
The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal) • Amazon Business $4.49 1 $4.49
When You Reach Me (Yearling Newbery) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
National Geographic Readers: Polar Bears • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$250.42

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$17.28

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.76

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$301.46

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$53.20

Total project goal

$354.66

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