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Ms. Fitzgerald from Chelsea VT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

It's All About Those Books

Help me give my students engaging and inspiring books that they will love.

  • $378 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students live in a small, rural, farming community. I have been their librarian since fall 2018 and we have had so much fun reading stories together. The students are creative and curious. Our school library is rather dated in some sections. There are so many amazing and engaging books out there that I know my students would love, but working within a school library budget has limits.

Please help me get my eager readers books they will love so they have up to date nonfiction and engaging, entertaining and inspiring fiction.

My Project

My K-8 school has readers at all levels, and with very different interests. Different kids are hooked into reading by different genres and authors. It's challenging to get all the "just right" books for every child with a school library budget. The books on this list are high interest and at varying reading levels so that all readers in the school can have new and engaging books.

Poetry can reach students who struggle as readers.

The Mr. Rogers poetry book and the color poetry book can inspire students and draw them in. Some students are drawn to books about animals and mythical beasts. A popular series for younger kids is What If You Had Animal.... Students also benefit from current events books and biographies about inspiring people; the books about Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Greta Thunberg provide portrayals of positive female role models.

Ms. Fitzgerald
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bravo!: Poems About Amazing Hispanics • Amazon Business $17.41 1 $17.41
Through the Animal Kingdom: Discover Amazing Animals and Their Remarkable Homes • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
What If You Had Animal Feet? (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) • Amazon Business $14.75 1 $14.75
I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon • Amazon Business $14.66 1 $14.66
Vivid: Poems & Notes About Color • Amazon Business $14.59 1 $14.59
What If You Had T. Rex Teeth?: And Other Dinosaur Parts • Amazon Business $14.46 1 $14.46
It's Not Jack and the Beanstalk (It’s Not a Fairy Tale) • Amazon Business $13.95 1 $13.95
Greta and the Giants: inspired by Greta Thunberg's stand to save the world • Amazon Business $13.68 1 $13.68
What Is a Refugee? • Amazon Business $13.42 1 $13.42
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights • Amazon Business $13.39 1 $13.39
The Bridge Home • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
Lalani of the Distant Sea • Amazon Business $11.85 1 $11.85
Race to the Sun • Amazon Business $11.79 1 $11.79
A Tale of Magic... (A Tale of Magic... (1)) • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
Sugarbush Spring • Amazon Business $10.86 1 $10.86
Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Journey to Justice • Amazon Business $10.69 1 $10.69
We Are All Greta: Be inspired by Greta Thunberg to save the world • Amazon Business $10.63 1 $10.63
Children's Book of Mythical Beasts and Magical Monsters • Amazon Business $9.29 1 $9.29
The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Tristan Strong (1)) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers • Amazon Business $8.92 1 $8.92
I Survived The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $8.39 1 $8.39
The Good Egg Presents: The Great Eggscape! • Amazon Business $8.29 1 $8.29
What If You Had Animal Ears? • Amazon Business $4.49 1 $4.49
What Is Climate Change? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$286.85

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.30

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$321.15

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$56.67

Total project goal

$377.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$377.82

3 Donors

-$188.90

Donations toward project cost

-$160.57

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.33

match offer

-$188.92

Match offer toward project cost

-$160.58

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.34

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$0.00

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