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

Little Free Diverse Library in Need of More Books

Help me give my students diverse books to read this summer during this unprecedented time when schools and libraries are closed.

  • $404 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My Reading Lab services students in grades 9-12 who struggle with reading and writing. The students come to me in small groups in order to receive remedial reading instruction. Many of these students are several grade levels behind in reading and therefore, struggle in their content area classes as a result.

My students are hard workers and are determined to learn the skills and strategies needed to be successful and voracious readers.

They love being given 20 minutes of independent reading time daily and are able to make gains in their reading levels as a result of their growing interest in reading. They are beginning to take control of their own learning and play an active role in the decision-making process within the Reading Lab. They inform me of the books they are interested in reading so that my classroom library matches their reading appetites.

My Project

With Amazon deprioritizing books and libraries remaining closed or opting for hold pickup only, it's become difficult to get physical copies of books into students' hands. In the community in which I teach, the nearest bookstore is 20 miles away. In order to supply students within our district with quality, diverse books, we (local teachers) built a Little Free Library and did our best to keep it stocked with relevant, engaging books for kids of all ages. For most students, this Little Free Library is their only source of obtaining books. As the summer has progressed, we've witnessed students of all ages grabbing books and have received numerous letters from parents thanking us for keeping their children supplied with reading material.

Our Little Free Library not only provides books for our students during this unprecedented time, but it also contains purposefully selected diverse books featuring characters with different cultural experiences.

In our predominantly white community, this is integral to educating our students and building empathy.

We have reached the point where our Little Free Library requires additional funding if we want to keep it stocked with titles that kids love. We are asking for funding to purchase diverse books for a range of ages so that students in our district can continue to have a Little Free Library where they can look through and select free books. As it seems more and more likely that we will continue online learning into the fall, this Little Free Library may become our only method of getting physical copies of books into kids' hands.

Ms. Harris
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sulwe • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Born Curious: 20 Girls Who Grew Up to Be Awesome Scientists • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
Thunder Boy Jr. (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards)) • Amazon Business $14.79 1 $14.79
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad • Amazon Business $14.03 1 $14.03
I Am Human: A Book of Empathy (I Am Books) • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything • Amazon Business $13.39 1 $13.39
The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story • Amazon Business $12.73 1 $12.73
Princeless: Save Yourself • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Mae Among the Stars • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
I Am Enough • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
Little & Lion • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Hate U Give • Amazon Business $10.45 1 $10.45
Love Makes a Family • Amazon Business $10.29 1 $10.29
Harriet Tubman (Little People, BIG DREAMS (13)) • Amazon Business $10.19 1 $10.19
The Poet X • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Amal Unbound • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Suki's Kimono • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
The First Rule of Punk • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
And Tango Makes Three (Classic Board Books) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Charlie and Frog (Charlie and Frog (1)) • Amazon Business $7.87 1 $7.87
New Kid • Amazon Business $7.79 1 $7.79
Blackbird Fly • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Sky at Our Feet • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Think Big, Little One (Vashti Harrison) • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
El Deafo • Amazon Business $6.70 1 $6.70
Ghost (Track) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Dear Martin • Amazon Business $5.48 1 $5.48
We're Different, We're the Same (Sesame Street) (Pictureback(R)) • Amazon Business $4.29 1 $4.29
The Crossover (The Crossover Series) • Amazon Business $3.81 1 $3.81
Front Desk (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $3.09 1 $3.09

Materials cost

$308.63

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.63

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$343.26

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$60.58

Total project goal

$403.84

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$403.84

10 Donors

-$337.07

Donations toward project cost

-$288.01

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$49.06

match offer

-$65.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$55.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.77

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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