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

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Ms. H.'s classroom raised $272

Lend Life to Our Library!!!

My students need 15 new and exciting books and a desk bell.

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Ms. H.
Grades 9-12

My Students

Henry Ward Beecher once said that "Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house." Help us to beautifully furnish our classroom library with new and contemporary books!

My students are NYC public school students who attend a Title 1 school.

The majority of the students qualify for free or discounted lunches. Our students come from diverse backgrounds and homes, but we come together to learn daily. For many of our students, they will be the first to graduate from high school and are living out the American Dream for their families. Our school is a small and tight-knit family. We have less than 500 students in the entire school but we have plenty of school pride and lots of heart.

My Project

Only seven years old, funds at our new school are often tight and updating our libraries can often fall to the wayside. Independent reading is often critical for our students who struggle with reading the most. These students often read three to five years behind their tenth grade reading level. During the 2010-2011 school year, our goal is to reads at least two levels beyond their current reading level. This is only possible if students are reading constantly. To encourage these skills, I try to jazz up our library with contemporary and interesting literature. These books range from urban literature that mirrors their own lives, to sports for the Mets and Yankees fans, to the latest graphic novel. My goal is to find the book that caters to the various interests in my classroom.

Your donation means that each one of my students can find the beauty and power in literature.

My hope is that they will come to see that reading, can indeed, be for them. Amidst the chaos and harried NYC life, I want them to find beauty, calm, and solace in the books of our classroom library.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

25 students impacted 3 donors
Ms. H. Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

25 students impacted 3donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Hoop Dreams Steve James, William "Pop" Gates, William Gates, Arthur Agee • Barnes and Noble $25.64 1 $25.64
Romeo & Juliet / Love Story / Falling in Love • Barnes and Noble $20.17 1 $20.17
Shooting Stars LeBron James, Buzz Bissinger • Barnes and Noble $18.43 1 $18.43
Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny Hill Harper • Barnes and Noble $9.57 1 $9.57
On the Court with... Lebron James Matt Christopher, Stephanie Peters • Barnes and Noble $4.26 1 $4.26
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year Jimmy Breslin, Bill Veeck (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $10.51 1 $10.51
Yankee Century: A Celebration of the First Hundred Years of Baseball's Greatest Team Harvey Frommer, Paul O'Neill (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $4.25 1 $4.25
The Conversation: How Black Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships Hill Harper • Barnes and Noble $15.39 1 $15.39
Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny Hill Harper, Foreword by Gabrielle Union • Barnes and Noble $10.26 1 $10.26
Wintergirls Laurie Halse Anderson • Barnes and Noble $8.54 1 $8.54
Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance 1973 John Barnes • Barnes and Noble $12.98 1 $12.98
Jumping Off Swings Jo Knowles • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
Spider-Man Noir Carmine Di Giandomenico (Artist), David Hine, Fabrice Sapolsky • Barnes and Noble $10.25 1 $10.25
Hate List Jennifer Brown • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge Josh Neufeld • Barnes and Noble $11.59 1 $11.59
DESK BELL----*Comments* • Teacher's School Supply Inc. $6.93 1 $6.93

Materials cost

$191.99

Vendor shipping charges

 $0.76

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$230.63

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$40.70

Total project goal

$271.33

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $271.33

2 Donors

-$89.10

Donations toward project cost

-$81.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

match offer

-$175.33

Match offer toward project cost

-$149.03

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.30

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.90

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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