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Mrs. Jordan from Weedville PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Inspiring Biographies

Help me give my students new and interesting biographies to expand their minds and encourage them to explore.

  • $325 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Our students are a great group of students from a rural town in Pennsylvania. They are enthusiastic, creative , hard working and curious about the world. They are part of a Title 1 school where many families have low income. Our school community looks for various ways to bring culture and diversity to their learning. Due to limited funding, the library is not always able to support their curiousity and experiences.

We need to look for outside support to bring new updated books for our students.

We try to bring many different experiences to them so they can learn in various ways. Books are one resource our students still enjoy to use .

My Project

Our current collection of biographies is old and not very interesting. With limited library budgets, we are rarely able to fund this area. We are constantly striving to bring the world to them and explore their interests. By providing these biographies my students can connect with historical people, athletes, and inventors that have helped formed their world.

My project will provide updated diverse biographies that students can read and use for research.

Our school does a Living Wax museum based on famous people. These books can be used to help them research different exciting people. They can also be read for fun .

Mrs. Jordan
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
John Deere, That's Who! • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Strong as Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became the Strongest Man on Earth • Amazon Business $17.06 1 $17.06
Who Was Ronald Reagan? (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) • Amazon Business $16.00 1 $16.00
Who Was Theodore Roosevelt? (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) • Amazon Business $16.00 1 $16.00
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah • Amazon Business $14.36 1 $14.36
Stephen Curry: The Children's Book: The Boy Who Never Gave Up • Amazon Business $13.81 1 $13.81
Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing • Amazon Business $13.66 1 $13.66
Becoming Babe Ruth: Candlewick Biographies • Amazon Business $12.55 1 $12.55
No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas • Amazon Business $12.32 1 $12.32
Dream Big: Michael Jordan and the Pursuit of Olympic Gold (Paula Wiseman Books) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Epic Athletes: LeBron James • Amazon Business $11.79 1 $11.79
Epic Athletes: Serena Williams • Amazon Business $11.72 1 $11.72
I am Albert Einstein (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $11.70 1 $11.70
Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille • Amazon Business $11.64 1 $11.64
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 • Amazon Business $11.48 1 $11.48
Mae Among the Stars • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
She's Got This • Amazon Business $10.53 1 $10.53
I am Neil Armstrong (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $8.39 1 $8.39
I am Billie Jean King (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99

Materials cost

$241.96

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.63

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$275.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$48.63

Total project goal

$324.22

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$324.22

3 Donors

-$197.10

Donations toward project cost

-$167.54

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.56

match offer

-$127.12

Match offer toward project cost

-$108.05

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.07

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$0.00

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