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Ms. Carson from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Engaging Students Through Books

Help me give my students new and engaging books to read this school year!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Carson's classroom raised $793

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

A new classroom library filled with diverse books will get my middle schoolers excited to read! Engaging books play a critical role in developing life longer readers. Access to diverse texts allows for students to not only see themselves in a story, but also take a walk in someone else's shoes.

Diverse and engaging texts increase a love of reading and encourage students to be lifelong learners.

This booklist has texts that relate to a diverse set of topics, both fictional and informative. A full classroom library provides students with the opportunity to explore and use their imagination.

Ms. Carson Brennemann Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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.

Chicago, IL 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

80 students impacted 12donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Divergent Series Four-Book Collection Box Set (Books 1-4) • Amazon Business $58.29 1 $58.29
Hunger Games 4-Book Paperback Box Set (the Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay, the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) • Amazon Business $55.76 1 $55.76
Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7) • Amazon Business $45.49 1 $45.49
Amari 2-Book Hardcover Box Set: Amari and the Night Brothers, Amari and the Great Game (Supernatural Investigations) • Amazon Business $23.99 1 $23.99
Marvel Encyclopedia, New Edition • Amazon Business $20.90 1 $20.90
The Lord of the Rings 3-Book Paperback Box Set • Amazon Business $19.29 1 $19.29
Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria (Scholastic Focus) • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
La tierra de las grullas (Land of the Cranes) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $8.99 2 $17.98
To the Moon!: The True Story of the American Heroes on the Apollo 8 Spaceship • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Simon B. Rhymin' Gets in the Game (Simon B. Rhymin’, 3) • Amazon Business $15.31 1 $15.31
Amari y los hermanos de la noche / Amari and the Night Brothers (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
Miles Morales: Ondas sísmicas (Miles Morales: Shock Waves) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Miles Morales: SpiderMan (A Marvel YA Novel) • Amazon Business $12.88 1 $12.88
Miles Morales: Stranger Tides (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
March: Book Two • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
The Raven and Other Poems (Barnes & Noble Flexibound Pocket Editions) (Barnes & Noble Flexibound Pocket Editions) • Amazon Business $10.00 1 $10.00
Scholastic Year in Sports 2023 • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
Miles Morales: Shock Waves (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $9.15 1 $9.15
Rick Riordan Presents: Tristan Strong Destroys the World-A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 2 • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Rick Riordan Presents: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky-A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 1 • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Last Gate of the Emperor • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Rick Riordan Presents: Tristan Strong Keeps Punching-A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 3 • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Deadliest Diseases Then and Now (The Deadliest #1, Scholastic Focus) (1) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Betty Before X • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Simon B. Rhymin' (Simon B. Rhymin’, 1) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Blackbird Girls • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano • Amazon Business $8.96 1 $8.96
A Night Divided (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Schooled • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Simon B. Rhymin' Takes a Stand (Simon B. Rhymin’, 2) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Only Black Girls in Town • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The List of Things That Will Not Change • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Ghost Boys • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
An Abundance of Katherines • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Someday Suitcase • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Behind the Mountains • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
My Life as a Gamer (The My Life series, 5) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Child of the Dream (A Memoir of 1963) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Moon Within (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Marcus Makes a Movie • Amazon Business $7.89 1 $7.89
March: Book One • Amazon Business $7.63 1 $7.63
Blended • Amazon Business $7.53 1 $7.53
Serafina's Promise • Amazon Business $7.51 1 $7.51
On the Horizon • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Felix Yz • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Becoming Muhammad Ali • Amazon Business $6.59 1 $6.59
Baseball in April and Other Stories • Amazon Business $6.31 1 $6.31
What Is Climate Change? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $5.71 1 $5.71
Electrical Wizard: Candlewick Biographies: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Native American Heroes: Osceola, Tecumseh & Cochise • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$634.41

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$673.93

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$118.93

Total project goal

$792.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$792.86

12 Donors

-$763.45

Donations toward project cost

-$673.93

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$89.52

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$29.41

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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