Books are our escape. These times we are living in aren't easy for students who haven't had a "regular" school year in three years. My sixth-grade students need to dive into a good book that can enhance their understanding of our topics in language arts and history, that can allow them a little escape from today's stresses.
Sometimes, the world is a place where we find heartbreak, but in books, we can learn something new, transport ourselves to another time, or escape in the figurative language of a poem.
A good book can support a struggling student, who may find a spark to learn more about a topic after reading about it in a book.
We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History
• Amazon Business
$28.60
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$28.60
Ancient Civilizations (3 Books)
• AKJ Education
$25.96
1
$25.96
Exploring the Solar System: A History with 22 Activities (25) (For Kids series)
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$19.99
1
$19.99
Every Last Drop: Bringing Clean Water Home (Orca Footprints, 4)
• Amazon Business
$19.95
1
$19.95
Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing (Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor (Awards))
• Amazon Business
$18.99
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$18.99
Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1924 (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards))
• Amazon Business
$18.74
1
$18.74
The Wind Called My Name
• Amazon Business
$18.01
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$18.01
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
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$17.99
1
$17.99
Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer
• Amazon Business
$17.69
1
$17.69
Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our Planet (Nature Books for Kids, Science for Kids, Envirnonmental Science for Kids)
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$16.99
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$16.99
Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers (Junior Library Guild Selection)
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$16.11
1
$16.11
The Camping Trip that Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks
• Amazon Business
$15.30
1
$15.30
Poems of Rome (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
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$14.95
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$14.95
Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice
• Amazon Business
$14.50
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$14.50
Trouble in Timbuktu
• Amazon Business
$14.36
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$14.36
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
• Amazon Business
$13.87
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$13.87
The Life and Times of Corn
• Amazon Business
$13.87
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$13.87
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
• Amazon Business
$13.12
1
$13.12
This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World
• Amazon Business
$12.59
1
$12.59
Poetry for Young People: Maya Angelou
• Amazon Business
$11.69
1
$11.69
Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer
• Amazon Business
$10.95
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$10.95
Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air
• Amazon Business
$9.99
1
$9.99
Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan
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$9.99
1
$9.99
The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe (Scientists in the Field)
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$9.99
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$9.99
Call of the Klondike: A True Gold Rush Adventure
• Amazon Business
$9.99
1
$9.99
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
• Amazon Business
$9.99
1
$9.99
Pyramid
• AKJ Education
$9.48
1
$9.48
Endurance, Young Readers Edition: My Year in Space and How I Got There
• Amazon Business
$8.99
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$8.99
Start Now!: You Can Make a Difference
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$8.99
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$8.99
The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond
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$8.99
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$8.99
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
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$8.99
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$8.99
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
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$8.99
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$8.99
The Biography of Spices (How Did That Get Here?)
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$8.95
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$8.95
Hard As Nails in Ancient Egypt
• AKJ Education
$8.72
1
$8.72
Hard as Nails in Ancient Rome
• AKJ Education
$8.72
1
$8.72
Hard As Nails in Ancient Greece
• AKJ Education
$8.72
1
$8.72
Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert
• Amazon Business
$7.99
1
$7.99
Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science
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$7.99
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$7.99
Destination: Space (Smithsonian-science)
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$7.99
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$7.99
Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum
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$7.99
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$7.99
Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson (Volume 2)
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$7.95
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$7.95
The School Story
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$7.49
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$7.49
The Serpent's Secret (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #1)
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$7.37
1
$7.37
A Symphony of Whales
• Amazon Business
$6.99
1
$6.99
The Year of Miss Agnes (Aladdin Historical Fiction)
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$6.99
1
$6.99
Becoming Joe DiMaggio
• Amazon Business
$6.99
1
$6.99
Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali
• Amazon Business
$6.95
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$6.95
The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone
• AKJ Education
$6.56
1
$6.56
Ancient Egypt
• AKJ Education
$6.56
1
$6.56
Black Ships Before Troy
• AKJ Education
$5.83
1
$5.83
Uncommon Champions
• Amazon Business
$3.96
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$3.96
I Wonder Why Romans Wore Togas
• AKJ Education
$1.75
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$1.75
Materials cost
$715.47
Vendor shipping charges
$6.00
Sales tax
$51.16
3rd party payment processing fee
$10.73
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$813.36
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$143.53
Total project goal
$956.89
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$956.89
1 Donor
-$956.89
Donations toward project cost
-$813.36
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