Help me give my students a mirror to themselves and a portal to the world through the joy of reading.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Riley's classroom raised $945
This project is fully funded
My Project
As a former English teacher and current middle school librarian, books are at the heart of everything I do with my students. I use them as mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors to allow my students a chance to see themselves in words or venture to far off lands and times.
The excitement in a student's voice when they share how much they loved a book is absolutely priceless.
Unfortunately, public school budgets do not allow for as may priceless moments as we would like to have. It is only because of generous donors who genuinely care about our children and their future that we are able to keep creating readers among our students.
Each book on my list was chosen with specific student in mind. I know who will be over the moon to see a book about a secret library and who will beg to come to the library when they find out there is a new book about the Titanic. That is why I do what I do. And I cannot do it without you.
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
The Greeks (Hide-and-Seek History)
• Amazon Business
$28.34
1
$28.34
The Familiar: A Novel
• Amazon Business
$26.99
1
$26.99
Alone Together: A Curious Exploration of Loneliness (Orca Think, 12)
• Amazon Business
$26.95
1
$26.95
Spying on Spies: How Elizebeth Smith Friedman Broke the Nazis' Secret Codes
• Amazon Business
$19.99
1
$19.99
Kyra, Just for Today
• Amazon Business
$19.99
1
$19.99
My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story
• Amazon Business
$19.99
1
$19.99
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration
• Amazon Business
$19.90
1
$19.90
Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality
• Amazon Business
$19.08
1
$19.08
The Secret Library
• Amazon Business
$18.99
1
$18.99
Louder Than Hunger
• Amazon Business
$18.99
1
$18.99
Chronically Dolores
• Amazon Business
$18.99
1
$18.99
A World of Supercars
• Amazon Business
$18.99
1
$18.99
One Giant Leap
• Amazon Business
$18.95
1
$18.95
No Time Like Now
• Amazon Business
$18.33
1
$18.33
Mid-Air
• Amazon Business
$17.99
1
$17.99
Not the Worst Friend in the World
• Amazon Business
$17.99
1
$17.99
Eli Over Easy
• Amazon Business
$17.99
1
$17.99
Cross My Heart and Never Lie
• Amazon Business
$17.33
1
$17.33
Max in the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II (Operation Kinderspion)
• Amazon Business
$17.09
1
$17.09
Finally Heard
• Amazon Business
$17.09
1
$17.09
Just Shy of Ordinary
• Amazon Business
$16.99
1
$16.99
What is the difference Between Latinx, Latino, and Hispanic?/ ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre ser Latinx, Latino o Hispano? (21st Century ... American) (English and Spanish Edition)
• Amazon Business
$16.87
1
$16.87
Something Like Home
• Amazon Business
$16.19
1
$16.19
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X: The Fatal Friendship (A Young Readers Adaptation of Blood Brothers)
• Amazon Business
$15.95
1
$15.95
Snowglobe (The Snowglobe Duology)
• Amazon Business
$15.74
1
$15.74
Warrior Girl
• Amazon Business
$15.30
1
$15.30
Ferris
• Amazon Business
$15.19
1
$15.19
The Problem with Gravity
• Amazon Business
$14.74
1
$14.74
All the Small Wonderful Things
• Amazon Business
$14.49
1
$14.49
Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise)
• Amazon Business
$14.37
1
$14.37
A Pocketful of Stars
• Amazon Business
$14.35
1
$14.35
Puzzled: A Memoir about Growing Up with OCD
• Amazon Business
$13.99
1
$13.99
Control Freaks
• Amazon Business
$13.59
1
$13.59
The Immortal Games
• Amazon Business
$12.99
1
$12.99
Art Club (A Graphic Novel)
• Amazon Business
$12.99
1
$12.99
Scarewaves
• Amazon Business
$12.99
1
$12.99
Remember Us
• Amazon Business
$12.74
1
$12.74
The Edge of In Between
• Amazon Business
$12.19
1
$12.19
Photographs of Manzanar
• Amazon Business
$11.95
1
$11.95
Finally Seen
• Amazon Business
$11.49
1
$11.49
Project F
• Amazon Business
$10.99
1
$10.99
Black Achievements in Arts and Literature: Celebrating Gordon Parks, Amanda Gorman, and More (Black Excellence Project (Read Woke ™ Books))
• Amazon Business
$10.99
1
$10.99
The Otherwoods
• Amazon Business
$10.63
1
$10.63
Time Out
• Amazon Business
$10.00
1
$10.00
TikTok (Top Brands)
• Amazon Business
$9.55
1
$9.55
Freedom Summer 1964: Turning Point for Voting Rights
• Amazon Business
$8.99
1
$8.99
Tragedy at Sea: The Sinking of the Titanic (Everyone Can Be a Reader)
• Amazon Business
$8.99
1
$8.99
Scariest. Book. Ever. (Goosebumps House of Shivers #1)
• Amazon Business
$6.38
1
$6.38
Materials cost
$761.57
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$11.42
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$802.99
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$141.70
Total project goal
$944.69
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$944.69
7 Donors
-$471.60
Donations toward project cost
-$402.13
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$69.47
match offer
-$471.61
Match offer toward project cost
-$400.87
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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