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Ms. Davis from Memphis TN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Incarcerated Students in Need of Exciting New Books!

Help me give my students I teach incarcerated students and we are always in need in new books! My students are always requesting new books so this would be greatly appreciated!

  • 1 donor
  • $1,109 still needed

expires Jul 23

  • 1 donor
  • $1,109 still needed
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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Project

The past nine years I have been a special education teacher with incarcerated students in Memphis, TN. I am requesting paperback books as I have discovered when books are available our students really enjoy distracting themselves with reading. Improving the literacy of incarcerated youth helps them meet short term goals such as building self-efficacy and improving academic performance. In schools where reaching at-risk youth is a challenge, creating curriculum and materials of interest to students is an asset to their learning, engagement, and motivation. Access to books offers our students a chance to learn, to explore their interests, reflect upon their own lives, and reconnect with society to some extent.

Ms. Davis
Grades 6-8

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
3 Graphic Novels: HOOKY Volumes 1-3 (paperback book set) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $50.00 2 $100.00
Twilight Series Stephenie Meyer 6 Books Collection Set (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, The Short Second Life Of Bree Tanner, Midnight Sun) • Amazon Business $79.89 1 $79.89
Bad Guys Book Series 1-10 • Amazon Business $38.80 2 $77.60
4 High School Favorites #1 (Ages 14+): Becoming, Black Enough, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Blackout (paperback+hardcover book set) • MahoganyBooks $60.00 1 $60.00
National Geographic Stargazer's Atlas: The Ultimate Guide to the Night Sky • Amazon Business $47.99 1 $47.99
March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) (paperback book set) • MahoganyBooks $44.99 1 $44.99
Trials of Apollo, The 5Book Paperback Boxed Set • Amazon Business $37.21 1 $37.21
Villains Duology Boxed Set: Vicious, Vengeful • Amazon Business $27.93 1 $27.93
The Crossover Series 3-Book Box Set: The Crossover, Booked, Rebound (paperback book set) • MahoganyBooks $25.19 1 $25.19
A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery Collection (Boxed Set): Murder Is Bad Manners; Poison Is Not Polite; First Class Murder; Jolly Foul Play; Mistletoe and Murder • Amazon Business $23.24 1 $23.24
4 Book Bundle - Who HQ: Contemporary Figures (paperback book set) • MahoganyBooks $22.46 1 $22.46
Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $22.00 1 $22.00
4 Book Bundle - Who HQ: Civil Rights Figures (paperback book set) • MahoganyBooks $21.56 1 $21.56
The Carl Deuker Collection 4-Book Boxed Set • Amazon Business $20.49 1 $20.49
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks - Adapted for Young People (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Eerie Elementary, Books 1-4: A Branches Box Set • Amazon Business $19.96 1 $19.96
A Tale of Magic... Paperback Boxed Set (Tale of Magic…) • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
The League of Secret Heroes Complete Collection (Boxed Set): Cape; Mask; Boots • Amazon Business $18.59 1 $18.59
Framed! Crime-Fighting Collection (Boxed Set): Framed!; Vanished!; Trapped! • Amazon Business $18.49 1 $18.49
The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel Single Volume • Amazon Business $18.39 1 $18.39
A Place Inside of Me A Poem to Heal the Heart (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
AVENGERS BY JASON AARON VOL. 1: THE FINAL HOST • Amazon Business $16.40 1 $16.40
Kingston and the Magician's Lost and Found (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
The Poet X (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
Fantastic Four: Full Circle (Marvel Arts) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Batman/DC Comic Book Grab Bag - 10 pack • Amazon Business $12.39 1 $12.39
Frizzy (paperback graphic novel) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
Dear Martin (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $11.69 1 $11.69
Don Quixote (Classics Illustrated) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Pet (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.99 1 $8.99
Concrete Kids (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Anger Is a Gift: A Novel • Amazon Business $7.89 1 $7.89
Once Upon a Crime (The Sisters Grimm #4): 10th Anniversary Edition (Sisters Grimm, The) • Amazon Business $7.34 1 $7.34
Warriors: The Lost Warrior • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29

Materials cost

$893.18

Vendor shipping charges

 $26.92

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.40

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$963.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$170.03

Total project goal

$1,133.53

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,133.53

1 Donor

-$25.00

Donations toward project cost

-$21.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $1,108.53

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