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Ms. Wight from Houston, TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Graphic Novels for 7th Graders!

My students need more reading materials. Our campus is limited to our classroom library. My library has 900 books for 110 students. It's up to me to keep books coming in.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Wight's classroom raised $382

This project is fully funded

My Students

It just takes one book to get kids to fall in love with reading. My project is simple. I found the best graphic novels for Young Adult readers and asked for those books. English Language Learners and students with reading complications LOVE graphic novels.

My students are the definition of high needs.

In our school, 25% of our students are homeless and 80% receive free/reduced lunch. My students come from a variety of backgrounds. Some have grown up in the same traditionally African-American neighborhood as their grandparents, and haven't ventured much further than our city limits. Others are first or second generation, Spanish speaking, immigrants to our country. With our wide cultural range, we spend much of our time learning about each other and the characters we read in our texts. There's so much to share and learn just among ourselves.

My Project

As a literacy teacher, my biggest struggle is getting students to simply pick out a book. There's always a litany of excuses why certain books won't work. By having some of the newest and most exciting Young Adult graphic novels, my students will be bookworms in no time. Reading doesn't have to be boring and students shouldn't read what they aren't interested in. I plan to keep the library stocked with enticing reads that they can't wait to get their hands on!

It only takes one book for a child to fall in love with reading.

Upon falling in love with books, my students will grow to be lifelong readers. Graphic novels help even the most reluctant and troubled reader form a bond with reading.

Ms. Wight KIPP Liberation College Preparatory Grades 6-8

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.

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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

110 students impacted 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Kane Chronicles Hardcover Boxed Set • Amazon $33.41 1 $33.41
March: Book One (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) • Amazon $24.21 1 $24.21
The Harlem Hellfighters • Amazon $23.48 1 $23.48
The Complete Don Quixote (Eye Classics) • Amazon $20.24 1 $20.24
War Brothers: The Graphic Novel • Amazon $20.17 1 $20.17
Sunny, Vol. 1 • Amazon $17.03 1 $17.03
The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the Ship That Sank Twice • Amazon $17.03 1 $17.03
The Property • Amazon $16.60 1 $16.60
Paul Joins the Scouts • Amazon $15.83 1 $15.83
Marble Season • Amazon $15.75 1 $15.75
Song of Roland, The • Amazon $15.62 1 $15.62
Bad Machinery Volume 1: The Case of the Team Spirit • Amazon $15.13 1 $15.13
The Great American Dust Bowl • Amazon $14.50 1 $14.50
Jane, the Fox, and Me • Amazon $14.29 1 $14.29
How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial • Amazon $13.07 1 $13.07
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Donner Dinner Party • Amazon $9.32 1 $9.32
Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story • Amazon $4.50 1 $4.50

Materials cost

$290.18

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.35

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$324.53

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$57.27

Total project goal

$381.80

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $381.80

8 Donors

-$237.98

Donations toward project cost

-$222.53

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.45

match offer

-$120.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$102.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$23.82

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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