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Ms. Clary from Durham, NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Good Books Help Brains Grow

My students need books that inspire them to be better readers that are high interest and of varying levels of difficulty.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Clary's classroom raised $422

This project is fully funded

My Students

At my school we have smart, challenging, creative students most of whom qualify for free or reduced price lunch. Our school is wonderfully diverse. It is predominately Black and Latino, but we have students from all over the world and varying ethnic backgrounds. Our multicultural school provides a culturally rich place for students to learn.

The ability levels of my eighth graders range from a 2nd grade reading level to a college reading level, and our school struggles to acquire the resources we need to help them grow.

Funding for education in North Carolina is continually cut, and we are now at a place where our school struggles to afford basic necessities like paper. My school has been labeled as low performing, but our students are hungry for resources to help them learn and achieve.

My Project

My students are hungry for books that will help them learn and grow. We know that the best way to become a better reader is to read! Unfortunately socioeconomic issues can make it difficult for students to have access to high interest books at home. Well planned classroom libraries help students to have books at their fingertips that capture their interest and make them enthusiastic readers. One study revealed that classroom libraries increased reading time by 60% and that literacy related activities more than doubled! (Neuman, 1999)

We do many activities related to students' independent reading that help them become better readers, writers and critical thinkers.

My students write book reviews, reading response journals, sequels, character diaries, and alternate point of view projects. They study plot, theme, character development, setting, and figurative language. They build skills like summarization, comparing and contrasting, connection-making and improved vocabulary.

Your contribution will help place high interest novels into my students' hands and will help them become life long readers and learners. Please donate today!

Ms. Clary Sherwood Githens Middle School Grades 6-8

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Durham, NC 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

120 students impacted 5donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Outliers • Amazon Business $14.53 1 $14.53
You Know Me Well: A Novel • Amazon Business $12.66 1 $12.66
Six of Crows • Amazon Business $12.28 1 $12.28
Every Exquisite Thing • Amazon Business $11.50 1 $11.50
Eleanor & Park • Amazon Business $11.20 1 $11.20
Ruined • Amazon Business $10.94 1 $10.94
My Lady Jane • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
Ivory and Bone • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories • Amazon Business $10.36 1 $10.36
The Alchemist • Amazon Business $10.23 1 $10.23
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian • Amazon Business $9.18 1 $9.18
Challenger Deep • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Asylum • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
The Perks of Being a Wallflower • Amazon Business $8.40 1 $8.40
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) • Amazon Business $8.24 1 $8.24
Speak • Amazon Business $8.23 1 $8.23
The 5th Wave: The First Book of the 5th Wave Series • Amazon Business $8.04 1 $8.04
The Eye of Minds (The Mortality Doctrine, Book One) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The List • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children) • Amazon Business $7.97 1 $7.97
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Revised Edition) • Amazon Business $7.96 1 $7.96
The Fault in Our Stars • Amazon Business $7.92 1 $7.92
The Book Thief • Amazon Business $7.79 1 $7.79
The Beginning of Everything • Amazon Business $7.66 1 $7.66
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier • Amazon Business $7.50 1 $7.50
Snow Like Ashes (Snow Like Ashes Series) • Amazon Business $7.18 1 $7.18
Thirteen Reasons Why • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
The Novice: Summoner: Book One (The Summoner Trilogy) • Amazon Business $6.70 1 $6.70
The Girl from the Well • Amazon Business $6.61 1 $6.61
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock • Amazon Business $6.25 1 $6.25
Rules • Amazon Business $6.00 1 $6.00
The Running Dream (Schneider Family Book Award - Teen Book Winner) • Amazon Business $5.94 1 $5.94
Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, Book 1) (Anna Dressed in Blood Series) • Amazon Business $5.64 1 $5.64
Out of My Mind • Amazon Business $5.00 1 $5.00

Materials cost

$293.32

Vendor shipping charges

 $7.98

Sales tax

 $22.88

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.40

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$358.58

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$63.28

Total project goal

$421.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $421.86

4 Donors

-$296.86

Donations toward project cost

-$252.33

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.53

match offer

-$125.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$106.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.75

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