You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

Mrs. Radway from Sioux Falls SD is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Let's Read the Latest and Greatest!

My students need books with 2017 and 2018 copyrights in our school library. All of the books we've wanted, but haven't been able to afford.

  • $657 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students come from very diverse backgrounds. Many of them have experienced challenges we adults could not imagine. The diverse classroom brings many different languages spoken in the classroom. School is a safe and engaging place for all students with different backgrounds to come together to play, build relationships, experience, learn and grow safely. Students come to school eager and ready to engage in their day. We work hard to meet the needs of each of these students both academically and socially.

My Project

My students love reading books. Period. I can't get enough books in these students’ hands. My small library budget doesn't always allow me to purchase the popular books I know my students will love. Much of this year’s budget went to purchasing updated nonfiction books for a vastly outdated collection! But, in doing this some of the students’ favorites were left off of the list.

So, I am reaching out to you, the DonorsChoose community, for support in helping my students continue to love reading by providing them with the books they desperately want to read.

This list of books includes a few nonfiction for my youngest readers, graphic novels for my reluctant boy readers, and some replacements of our favorites that have come back tattered and torn.

The books will become part of the library collection for all of our students to check out, read, love, and pass along to their classmates.

Mrs. Radway
Grades 3-5

Boost your odds

Add a profile photo in addition to your classroom photo. If you add a photo, it'll show up right here on your project page.

You are more likely to receive funding if you put a face to your name.

Upload a photo

Top rated for efficiency and transparency.

You donate directly to the teacher or project you care about and see where every dollar you give goes.

Expand the "Where your donation goes" section below to see exactly what Mrs. Radway is requesting.

See our finances

TEACHERS, FEELING INSPIRED?

You can start a project with the same resources being requested here!

Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The War I Finally Won • Amazon Business $11.89 2 $23.78
Bolivar • Amazon Business $20.59 1 $20.59
The 78-Story Treehouse (The Treehouse Books) • Amazon Business $9.43 2 $18.86
How Are You? / ¿Cómo estás? • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Building Bridges (Young Explorer: Young Engineers) • Amazon Business $16.97 1 $16.97
Itch!: Everything You Didn't Want to Know About What Makes You Scratch • Amazon Business $15.88 1 $15.88
King & Kayla and the Case of the Lost Tooth • Amazon Business $14.93 1 $14.93
American Gothic: The Life of Grant Wood • Amazon Business $14.67 1 $14.67
Secret Coders: Potions & Parameters • Amazon Business $7.33 2 $14.66
Islandborn • Amazon Business $12.75 1 $12.75
A Busy Creature's Day Eating • Amazon Business $12.75 1 $12.75
Books That Drive Kids CRAZY!: Did You Take the B from My _ook? • Amazon Business $12.61 1 $12.61
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow • Amazon Business $12.35 1 $12.35
A Seed is the Start (Science & Nature) • Amazon Business $12.32 1 $12.32
Nerdy Birdy Tweets • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions • Amazon Business $11.86 1 $11.86
Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble • Amazon Business $11.72 1 $11.72
Hilo Book 3: The Great Big Boom • Amazon Business $11.71 1 $11.71
Peanut Butter and Jelly (A Narwhal and Jelly Book #3) • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11's Third Man • Amazon Business $11.52 1 $11.52
The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? (Pigeon) • Amazon Business $11.29 1 $11.29
Gone Camping: A Novel in Verse • Amazon Business $11.19 1 $11.19
Dory Fantasmagory: Head in the Clouds • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Pass the Ball, Mo! (Mo Jackson) • Amazon Business $10.91 1 $10.91
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! • Amazon Business $10.87 1 $10.87
NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society (Book One) • Amazon Business $10.84 1 $10.84
Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! • Amazon Business $10.56 1 $10.56
Science Comics: Robots and Drones: Past, Present, and Future • Amazon Business $10.52 1 $10.52
Charlie & Mouse • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
The Bad Guys in Alien vs Bad Guys (The Bad Guys #6) • Amazon Business $5.08 2 $10.16
Wolf in the Snow • Amazon Business $10.07 1 $10.07
My Friends Make Me Happy! (The Giggle Gang) • Amazon Business $9.87 1 $9.87
Hilo Book 1: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
Hilo Book 2: Saving the Whole Wide World • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
The Pigeon Needs a Bath! • Amazon Business $9.67 1 $9.67
A Big Guy Took My Ball! (An Elephant and Piggie Book) • Amazon Business $9.65 1 $9.65
Hilo Book 4: Waking the Monsters • Amazon Business $9.63 1 $9.63
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy • Amazon Business $9.51 1 $9.51
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! • Amazon Business $9.51 1 $9.51
Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! The Good for Nothing Button! • Amazon Business $6.87 1 $6.87

Materials cost

$493.77

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$27.16

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.41

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$558.34

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$98.53

Total project goal

$656.87

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$656.87

2 Donors

-$568.64

Donations toward project cost

-$558.34

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$10.30

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$88.23

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.

View complete list Show less

Support your local school!

Donate directly to any school in the US. Your donation will go towards directly purchasing urgent supplies.

Find a local school

Project Activity

{"pmaHash":"","schoolCity":"Sioux Falls","showProjectRecommendations":true,"teachersOnPage":[457742],"isTeacherViewingTheirOwnProject":false,"hideTeacherDetails":false,"schoolState":"SD","teacherPossessivePronoun":"her","PMsManager":null,"schoolGradeType":{"id":2,"name":"Elementary School"},"TeacherPMForms":{},"proposalId":3161462,"proposalMessageFormModel":null,"numActiveProjects":0,"completingDonationAmount":0,"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"proposalURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/project/lets-read-the-latest-and-greatest/3161462/","verifyShowPhotos":"","eligibleToBeCopied":false,"mayHaveReplacements":false,"numStudents":120,"teacherScreenName":"Mrs. Radway","isEquityFocus":false,"authorIds":{"457742":{"owner":"Mrs. Radway","donationSalutations":{}}},"displayedPercentFunded":1.0,"proposalsOnPage":[3161462],"proposalHash":"1181176252","isApplePayMobileOnly":true,"progressBarPercentage":100.00,"pmaId":"","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/136/teacher-placeholder-2_136.png","teacherHasProfilePhoto":false,"currentWorkflowStatusCode":21,"teacherChallengeId":40396,"photosPublished":true,"queryString":"","DonorPMForm":null,"isApplePayEnabled":true,"fundedByTarget":false,"activeProject":null,"donorIdsForImpactPhotoCheck":["Mjg2MjE2","NDU3NzQy"],"teacherId":457742,"schoolCounty":"Minnehaha","fullyFunded":true,"isStudentLed":false,"isExpired":true,"schoolStateObj":{"code":"SD","name":"South Dakota"}}