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Mrs. Yerkish from Brea, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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New Books For A New School Year!

Help me give my students new books to start the school year reading!

  • $441 goal

This project expired on November 6, 2025.

This project expired on November 6, 2025.

My Project

It’s a new school year and there’s nothing better than a new book to start the year off reading! Help me surprise my students with new books in the library to keep them reading throughout the school year.

There’s nothing as exciting as the promise of a new adventure inside the pages of a new book.

Help me fill my shelves with new books!

Seeing the excitement in my students eyes when they discover a new book in the library is what motivates me to do everything in my power to keep adding amazing books to my library collection.

Please help me motivate my students to keep reading with new exciting, updated books in the library. Thank you!

Mrs. Yerkish Olinda Elementary School Grades 3-5 Brea, CA View local requests 700 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) (The Hunger Games) • Amazon Business $12.78 2 $25.56
What If You Had Animal Hair? • Amazon Business $14.80 1 $14.80
Eyewitness Insect (DK Eyewitness) • Amazon Business $14.68 1 $14.68
One Wrong Step • Amazon Business $13.60 1 $13.60
Super Bug Encyclopedia: The Biggest, Fastest, Deadliest Creepy-Crawlers on the Planet (DK Super Nature Encyclopedias) • Amazon Business $13.18 1 $13.18
Big Book of Bugs • Amazon Business $12.94 1 $12.94
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games Series) (Large Print) • Amazon Business $12.83 1 $12.83
Ultimate Bugopedia, 2nd Edition: The Most Complete Bug Reference Ever (National Geographic Kids) • Amazon Business $12.83 1 $12.83
Snoop • Amazon Business $12.66 1 $12.66
Chef's Secret (Front Desk #6) • Amazon Business $11.77 1 $11.77
A Grimm Warning (The Land of Stories, 3) • Amazon Business $11.60 1 $11.60
Mixed Up • Amazon Business $11.30 1 $11.30
The Day the Crayons Made Friends • Amazon Business $10.65 1 $10.65
The Maze Runner: Book One of the Maze Runner Series • Amazon Business $10.60 1 $10.60
A Wolf Called Fire: A Voice of the Wilderness Novel • Amazon Business $10.13 1 $10.13
I Escaped WWII Pearl Harbor: A WW2 Book for Kids Age 9-12 • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Probability of Everything • Amazon Business $9.50 1 $9.50
The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns (The Land of Stories, 2) • Amazon Business $8.89 1 $8.89
Everything You Need to Know About Bugs • Amazon Business $7.79 1 $7.79
Unplugged • Amazon Business $7.66 1 $7.66
The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman • Amazon Business $7.57 1 $7.57
Operation: Happy: A World War II Story of Courage, Resilience, and an Unbreakable Bond • Amazon Business $7.47 1 $7.47
Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor • Amazon Business $7.33 1 $7.33
Code of Honor • Amazon Business $7.33 1 $7.33
The Fort • Amazon Business $7.01 1 $7.01
Faker • Amazon Business $6.89 1 $6.89
Restart • Amazon Business $6.73 1 $6.73
The Wild Robot Escapes (Volume 2) (The Wild Robot, 2) • Amazon Business $6.45 1 $6.45
Resist: A Story of D-Day • Amazon Business $6.19 1 $6.19
Dog Man: Big Jim Begins: A Graphic Novel (Dog Man #13): From the Creator of Captain Underpants • Amazon Business $5.53 1 $5.53

Materials cost

$311.46

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $28.50

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.67

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$374.63

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$66.11

Total project goal

$440.74

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