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

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Learning Through Literacy!

Help me give my students new and engaging books to read this school year!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Davis's classroom raised $1,143

This project is fully funded

My Project

A new classroom library filled with engaging books will get my 6th grade students excited to read! Rich texts play a crucial role in the development of middle school students, as they provide a gateway to enhanced learning and growth. The importance of exposing students to a plethora of books cannot be overstated, as it can broaden their horizons, expand their knowledge, and develop critical thinking skills.

Rich texts offer a tapestry of diverse ideas, perspectives, and experiences, fostering empathy, understanding, and tolerance among my students!

Included in this list of books are those that relate to science, adolescence, sports, technology, culture, diversity, history, and so much more! Reading a wide range of texts allows students to engage with various subject matters, sparking curiosity, creativity, and a thirst for knowledge! We will ensure to spoil these books as my students know that it is such a privilege to be stocked with a full classroom library!

My students are brilliant and creative and I want to make sure they are provided with every opportunity and experience to grow their love for reading and this library will be the first step in the right direction!

Ms. Davis Brennemann Elementary School Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Jason Reynolds's Track Series Paperback Collection (Boxed Set): Ghost; Patina; Sunny; Lu • Amazon Business $26.99 1 $26.99
Big Questions from Little People: And Simple Answers from Great Minds • Amazon Business $24.24 1 $24.24
Smile, Sisters, and Guts: The Box Set • Amazon Business $21.02 1 $21.02
The Bad Guys Box Set: Books 1-5 • Amazon Business $20.99 1 $20.99
Percy Jackson and the Olympians 5 Book Paperback Boxed Set (w/poster) (Percy Jackson & the Olympians) • Amazon Business $20.98 1 $20.98
The Way Things Work: Newly Revised Edition • Amazon Business $19.82 1 $19.82
Knowledge Encyclopedia (Updated and Enlarged Edition): The World as You've Never Seen It Before (DK Knowledge Encyclopedias) • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Knowledge Encyclopedia Ocean! (DK Knowledge Encyclopedias) • Amazon Business $18.69 1 $18.69
The Crossover: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $18.02 1 $18.02
Dinosaur! (Knowledge Encyclopedias) • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
How to Build a Museum: Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Days of Infamy: How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment (Scholastic Focus) • Amazon Business $16.76 1 $16.76
New Kid and Class Act: The Box Set • Amazon Business $16.50 1 $16.50
Niña morena sueña / Brown Girl Dreaming (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $15.47 1 $15.47
Harlem • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
Valentina Salazar is not a Monster Hunter • Amazon Business $14.38 1 $14.38
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
It's The End of the World and I'm In My Bathing Suit • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
National Geographic Kids Everything Money: A wealth of facts, photos, and fun! • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
Her Own Two Feet: A Rwandan Girl's Brave Fight to Walk (Scholastic Focus) • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
Diary of a Wimpy Kid #13: Meltdown • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
I am Jane Goodall (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Animated Science: Periodic Table (2) • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
Josephine Against the Sea • Amazon Business $11.35 1 $11.35
Girling Up: How to Be Strong, Smart and Spectacular • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Math Curse • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Booked Graphic Novel (The Crossover Series) • Amazon Business $10.39 1 $10.39
Shuri and T'Challa: Into the Heartlands (An Original Black Panther Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
El Deafo • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
That's Not What Happened • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Muted • Amazon Business $9.88 1 $9.88
Stargazing • Amazon Business $9.51 1 $9.51
You've Got This! (POPSUGAR) • Amazon Business $9.39 1 $9.39
Miles Morales: Shock Waves (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $9.15 1 $9.15
To the Moon!: The True Story of the American Heroes on the Apollo 8 Spaceship • Amazon Business $9.03 1 $9.03
The Blackbird Girls • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Season of Styx Malone • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Rick Riordan Presents: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky-A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 1 • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Scholastic Year in Sports 2022 • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Last Gate of the Emperor • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Last Shadow Warrior • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Deadliest Diseases Then and Now (The Deadliest #1, Scholastic Focus) (1) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Betty Before X • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
La tierra de las grullas (Land of the Cranes) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Earn It! (A Moneybunny Book) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Felix Yz • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Simon B. Rhymin' (Simon B. Rhymin’, 1) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
P.S. Be Eleven • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano • Amazon Business $8.96 1 $8.96
March: Book One • Amazon Business $8.50 1 $8.50
The Last Kids on Earth and the Zombie Parade • Amazon Business $8.48 1 $8.48
Schooled • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Only Black Girls in Town • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Shuri: A Black Panther Novel #1 (Black Panther, 1) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
A Night Divided (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Spaceman (Adapted for Young Readers): The True Story of a Young Boy's Journey to Becoming an Astronaut • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Someday Suitcase • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Land of the Cranes (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Dreamer • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The List of Things That Will Not Change • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
An Abundance of Katherines • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria (Scholastic Focus) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Ghost Boys • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Child of the Dream (A Memoir of 1963) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein Book for Kids, Books About Scientists for Kids, Biographies for Kids, Kids Science Books) (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Behind the Mountains • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
My Life as a Gamer (The My Life series, 5) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Moon Within (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Marcus Makes a Movie • Amazon Business $7.89 1 $7.89
Big Shot Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 16 • Amazon Business $7.87 1 $7.87
Amari and the Night Brothers (Supernatural Investigations, 1) • Amazon Business $7.64 1 $7.64
Blended • Amazon Business $7.53 1 $7.53
Serafina's Promise • Amazon Business $7.51 1 $7.51
Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish • Amazon Business $7.50 1 $7.50
One Crazy Summer: A Newbery Honor Award Winner • Amazon Business $7.42 1 $7.42
On the Horizon • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Brown Girl Dreaming • Amazon Business $6.87 1 $6.87
Becoming Muhammad Ali • Amazon Business $6.59 1 $6.59
Baseball in April and Other Stories • Amazon Business $6.31 1 $6.31
Who Was Sally Ride? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was George Washington Carver? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Los tipos malos (The Bad Guys) (1) (tipos malos, Los) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
What Is Climate Change? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $5.71 1 $5.71
Where Is Our Solar System? • Amazon Business $5.00 1 $5.00
Native American Heroes: Osceola, Tecumseh & Cochise • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Electrical Wizard: Candlewick Biographies: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven and Other Poems • Amazon Business $4.90 1 $4.90

Materials cost

$927.27

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$971.18

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$171.38

Total project goal

$1,142.56

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,142.56

13 Donors

-$1,094.18

Donations toward project cost

-$971.18

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$123.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$48.38

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$0.00

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