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

More Books for Developing Native Scholars!

My students need more reading books to help challenge them and help them succeed.

  • $1,229 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

These students are warriors fighting for their future. They're constantly challenging those who are trying to guide them to make sure they are benefiting them the most. These students have taken every challenge I have thrown at them and surpassed all expectations.

These students deserve to be challenged and to be believed in them.

They have all the tools to be successful. By supporting them you're investing in their future. I know that they will achieve great things in their life if they're properly encouraged.

My Project

My students have made tremendous gains, but need to continue to be challenged. I am hoping to expand my library to something more full and extensive.

My students have changed from students who would never pick up a book, to saying wow, this is a really good book.

Many of them have made requests on what they like to read and have asked me to get it for them. This time there is an assortment of books from native authors, to books for developing young adults, to self-awareness books. I am hoping with this order of books my students can make the final push to having 70% on grade level. It's been our goal for a while, but I believe we can achieve it.

Ms. Johnston
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dork Diaries Squee-tastic Collection Books 1-10 Plus 3 1/2: Dork Diaries 1; Dork Diaries 2; Dork Diaries 3; Dork Diaries 3 1/2; Dork Diaries 4; Dork ... Diaries 8; Dork Diaries 9; Dork Diaries 10 • Amazon Business $90.61 1 $90.61
Urban Underground (10 bk set) • AKJ Education $69.62 1 $69.62
Harry Potter Paperback Boxed Set: Books #1-7 • AKJ Education $63.46 1 $63.46
Best for Boys - 6 - 7 (10 Bk Set) • AKJ Education $55.90 1 $55.90
6-8 Poetry (5 Bk Set) • AKJ Education $43.25 1 $43.25
9-10 Common Core Exemplar Informational Texts: Language Arts (5 bk set) • AKJ Education $30.63 1 $30.63
Pretty Little Liars (4 Bk Set) • AKJ Education $26.62 1 $26.62
Lord of the Rings (4 Bk Set) • AKJ Education $23.96 1 $23.96
My Sisters' Voices Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out • AKJ Education $17.59 1 $17.59
Genocide of the Mind New Native American Writing • AKJ Education $13.14 1 $13.14
Between Shades of Gray • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Leaving • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Rain Is Not My Indian Name • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Paperboy • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Sweetgrass Basket • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Smashed • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Eleanor & Park • AKJ Education $12.34 1 $12.34
Eclipse • AKJ Education $10.95 1 $10.95
Death at the Black Bull • AKJ Education $10.95 1 $10.95
Breaking Dawn • AKJ Education $10.95 1 $10.95
P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before) • Amazon Business $10.28 1 $10.28
Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone • AKJ Education $10.22 1 $10.22
13 Is the New 18 • AKJ Education $10.22 1 $10.22
On the Fence • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Just Listen • Amazon Business $9.48 1 $9.48
Gravity • AKJ Education $9.45 1 $9.45
Native Writers Voices of Power • AKJ Education $8.96 1 $8.96
A Midsummer's Nightmare • Amazon Business $8.64 1 $8.64
Call Me By My Name • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
First There Was Forever • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Chasing Shadows • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Where She Went • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Backlash • Amazon Business $7.93 1 $7.93
Someone Like You • Amazon Business $7.82 1 $7.82
A Little Friendly Advice • Amazon Business $7.49 1 $7.49
Prodigy A Legend Novel • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Honey, Baby, Sweetheart • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Between Two Worlds • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Better Than Perfect • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Just Listen • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Lock and Key • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Something, Maybe • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Side Effects May Vary • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Heart of a Champion • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Stolen • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Annie on My Mind • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
If You Were Mine • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
One of Us • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
To Catch a Dream • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
To Be a Man • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
The Stranger • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
Outrunning the Darkness • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
No Fear • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
Shadows of Guilt • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
Learning to Fly • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
Leap of Faith • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
Unbroken • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
That Summer • Amazon Business $6.67 1 $6.67
Shark Girl • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Chains: Seeds of America • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Exposed • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
I Am the Cheese • AKJ Education $6.49 1 $6.49
Night • AKJ Education $6.04 1 $6.04
The Cage • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Boy of Their Dreams • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Under Pressure • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
The Harmonica • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Fight for Life #1 • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Written in Stone • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10

Materials cost

$947.73

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $52.13

3rd party payment processing fee

$14.22

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,044.08

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$184.25

Total project goal

$1,228.33

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,228.33

29 Donors

-$1,214.15

Donations toward project cost

-$1,044.08

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$170.07

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$14.18

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

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