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Mrs. Garrard from Columbus, NE is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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For the Love of Books

Help me give my students a variety of engaging texts to enhance our literacy environment!

  • $307 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! 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

These books will continue to enhance the print-rich classroom that I strive to create. My classroom library is a place that my students really enjoy-during whole class read-alouds that build classroom community, while sharing an exciting book with a partner, and while independently devouring a book catered to a student's unique level and interests! Every student book that is placed in my library is chosen thoughtfully and with love and care in order to develop my students into the readers and leaders of the future.

With these new diverse books, it is my hope that my students will be able to enjoy a variety of titles that will be both a mirror that reflects their unique self and also a window that allows them to open their mind to the diversity that exists in our world.

The best way to increase reading skills and strategies is to read more, and these books will continue to help my students grow stronger in reading. With the great emphasis placed on the importance and joy of reading in my classroom, this project will truly help enrich their literacy experiences!

Mrs. Garrard North Park Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More about Mrs. Garrard

Columbus, NE 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

65 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
MerryMakers Investigators Flip Doll, 14-Inch, Based on The Young Graphic Novel Comic Book Series by John Patrick Green • Amazon Business $24.00 1 $24.00
Little Daymond Learns to Earn • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
We Don't Lose Our Class Goldfish: A Penelope Rex Book • Amazon Business $17.09 1 $17.09
The Frozen Worlds: The Astonishing Nature of the Arctic and Antarctic (The Magic and Mystery of Nature) • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It: A Novel (The Finlay Donovan Series, 1) • Amazon Business $16.49 1 $16.49
Collins Junior Atlas (Collins School Atlases) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Collins Create Your Own Confidence • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea: A Graphic Novel (Dog Man #11): From the Creator of Captain Underpants • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
InvestiGators: All Tide Up (InvestiGators, 7) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Dinosaur Christmas • Amazon Business $12.79 1 $12.79
Max Meow Book 4: Taco Time Machine • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
How to Catch a Daddysaurus • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T. • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Welcome to Sparklegrove: A Branches Book (Unicorn Diaries #8) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Kittens Are Monsters!: A Branches Book (Pets Rule! #3) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Amazing Puzzles and Quizzes for Every 6 Year Old (Amazing Puzzles and Quizzes for Every Kid) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$214.45

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$12.87

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.22

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$260.54

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$45.98

Total project goal

$306.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$306.52

2 Donors

-$306.52

Donations toward project cost

-$260.54

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$45.98

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$0.00

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