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Mrs. Newsome from Salt Lake City UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Independent Reading and the Power of Literacy

Help me give my students books to discover the lifechanging power of literacy.

  • $997 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are alternative high school students working very hard to earn their credits, graduate, and pursue higher education. They come from very diverse backgrounds and have unique insights into the challenges facing society today. Many of my students will be the first to attend college in their family, many will the first to graduate from high school in their family, and many are English language learners.

My students have big dreams and need to continue to build the literacy skills that will enable them to reach their goals.

My Project

Our attention is being pulled in a variety of directions. My students need access to books that will be engaging in a world of social media distractions.

Literacy gives people independence to make choices, to advocate for themselves and to learn about their community and world.

A classroom library will bring stories to my students that will teach them about all that they are capable of achieving. They will learn and grow. My students love to learn. They are eager and inquisitive. As their teacher, I have compiled a classroom library that will engage and inspire my students.

Mrs. Newsome
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption • Amazon Business $9.11 5 $45.55
John Green: The Complete Collection Box Set • Amazon Business $30.99 1 $30.99
March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) • Amazon Business $27.49 1 $27.49
The Marrow Thieves • Amazon Business $12.57 2 $25.14
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team (Newbery Honor Book) • Amazon Business $20.99 1 $20.99
Out of Darkness • Amazon Business $9.99 2 $19.98
The Seeds of America Trilogy: Chains; Forge; Ashes • Amazon Business $18.98 1 $18.98
Jason Reynolds's Track Series Paperback Collection: Ghost; Patina; Sunny; Lu • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Ain't Burned All the Bright • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
We Dream of Space • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
THE BOOK THIEF • Amazon Business $13.77 1 $13.77
Susanna's Midnight Ride: The Girl Who Won the Revolutionary War (Sagebrush Publishing) • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
Out of My Heart • Amazon Business $12.72 1 $12.72
The Rose That Grew From Concrete • Amazon Business $12.69 1 $12.69
Clap When You Land • Amazon Business $12.68 1 $12.68
Grown • Amazon Business $12.60 1 $12.60
Love Is a Revolution • Amazon Business $12.40 1 $12.40
This One Summer • Amazon Business $11.57 1 $11.57
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
The Love Hypothesis • Amazon Business $11.17 1 $11.17
Wolf by Wolf: One girl's mission to win a race and kill Hitler (Wolf by Wolf, 1) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Never Fall Down: A Novel • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
American Born Chinese • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Scorpions, 25th Anniversary Edition • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Love from A to Z • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Serpent King • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Pride: A Pride & Prejudice Remix • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Belles • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
When Stars Are Scattered • Amazon Business $10.83 1 $10.83
The Sun Is Also a Star • Amazon Business $10.83 1 $10.83
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel • Amazon Business $10.74 1 $10.74
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood • Amazon Business $10.70 1 $10.70
Monster • Amazon Business $10.40 1 $10.40
City of Thieves: A Novel • Amazon Business $10.15 1 $10.15
SHOUT • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Feed • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Benefits of Being an Octopus: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Poet X • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Wanting Mor • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Darius the Great Is Not Okay • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
The Skin I'm In (20th Anniversary Edition) • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Piecing Me Together • Amazon Business $9.03 1 $9.03
A Single Shard • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Up for Air • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
A Wish in the Dark • Amazon Business $8.60 1 $8.60
The House of the Scorpion • Amazon Business $8.31 1 $8.31
Clean Getaway • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Show Me a Sign (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Paperboy • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
I Am the Messenger • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Maybe He Just Likes You • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Other Words for Home • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Return to Sender • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Science of Breakable Things • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Out of My Mind • Amazon Business $7.49 1 $7.49
Stella by Starlight • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
George (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Thing About Jellyfish • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Haunt Me • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Dear Martin • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
Ghost Boys • Amazon Business $6.89 1 $6.89
We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a true story • Amazon Business $6.89 1 $6.89
Brown Girl Dreaming • Amazon Business $6.87 1 $6.87
Counting by 7s • Amazon Business $6.69 1 $6.69
Tears of a Tiger • Amazon Business $6.69 1 $6.69
Looking for Alaska • Amazon Business $6.40 1 $6.40
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • Amazon Business $5.91 1 $5.91
All American Boys • Amazon Business $5.07 1 $5.07
Walk Two Moons (Trophy Newbery) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
The Wednesday Wars • Amazon Business $4.68 1 $4.68

Materials cost

$804.63

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.07

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$846.70

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$149.42

Total project goal

$996.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $996.12

1 Donor

-$996.12

Donations toward project cost

-$846.70

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$149.42

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