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Mrs. Wells from Rocky Mount NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Living for Novels

Help me give my students 25 copies of the book Sadako and the Paper Cranes.

  • $200 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

I teach at a Title I school in eastern NC where all of our students receive free breakfast and lunch. Many of our students live in housing projects and low income housing and don't have the resources they need to be successful. (Books to read at home is one small example).

Many of our students live in poverty and school is the only place where they fulfill their social, emotional, and academic needs.

This means that a lot more money comes out-of-pocket or we go without things that would make our classroom a better place to learn.

My Project

Please help give my students 25 copies of Sadako and the Paper Cranes. This book will help teach my students empathy as a little girl suffers from leukemia due to the bombing of Hiroshima. It will also teach about history and the Japanese culture. We will also learn about how our decisions always have consequences and how that can affect people on a larger scale. I look forward to sharing this story with my students and see what they can learn about hope, perseverance, consequences, love and inspiration through this emotional story of a little girl and how she inspired a nation.

Mrs. Wells
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sadako and the thousand paper cranes • AKJ Education $5.10 25 $127.50

Materials cost

$127.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $9.94

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$169.35

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$29.89

Total project goal

$199.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $199.24

1 Donor

-$191.85

Donations toward project cost

-$169.35

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$7.39

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 $0.00

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