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Mrs. Erickson from Golden CO is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Finding a Fantasy Book

Help me give my students a set of fantasy books that they can participate in book clubs with.

  • $255 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

I am privileged to work with a diverse community of students. In our fifth grade class, we have students from six different countries, who also come from diverse economic and linguistic backgrounds.

My students are amazing humans, and I am blessed to be part of their lives for a small piece of time.

They are inquisitive, thoughtful, and in great need of gaining the skills necessary to be successful in our diverse and changing world. I see it as a challenge to prepare my kids for jobs that do not yet exist.

My Project

Some of my students are reluctant readers; others consume books. By holding Book Clubs using a similar genre book, I hope to bring both types of readers in my class together.

I want my students to increase their love of reading, regardless of their current level of interest.

Books are natural equalizers, because with books, all students can enter the same world as their peers, and develop rich understandings of it through dialogue and discussion.

By having new books, all of the fantasy genre, I hope to "hook" my students into a genre study that will help them this school year and beyond into their future reading lives.

Mrs. Erickson
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Fourteenth Goldfish • AKJ Education $5.83 5 $29.15
Silver On The Tree • AKJ Education $5.83 5 $29.15
The Enchanted Files #1: Cursed • AKJ Education $5.83 5 $29.15
A Swiftly Tilting Planet • AKJ Education $5.83 5 $29.15
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One: The Lightning Thief • AKJ Education $5.59 5 $27.95
Tuck Everlasting • AKJ Education $5.59 5 $27.95

Materials cost

$172.50

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$11.04

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.59

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$216.13

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$38.14

Total project goal

$254.27

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$254.27

7 Donors

-$253.04

Donations toward project cost

-$216.13

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$36.91

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.23

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$0.00

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