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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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Mrs. Yerkish's classroom raised $425

New Books For The Library!

Help me give my students new books to make the library fun and engaging!

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Mrs. Yerkish Olinda Elementary School
Brea, CA Grades PreK-2

My Project

It’s that time of the school year when students start saying "I've read everything!" or "I can't find anything to read!". Help me surprise my students with new books in the library to keep them excited about reading through the rest of the school year. Help me fill my shelves with new books!

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

Seeing the excitement in my students eyes when they discover a new book in the library is what motivates me to do everything I can to keep adding amazing books to our library collection. Please help me motivate my students to keep reading with new exciting, updated books in the library. Thank you!

700 students impacted 4 donors
Mrs. Yerkish Olinda Elementary School Grades PreK-2 Brea, CA View local requests 700 students impacted 4donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Busted • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Snoop • Amazon Business $17.36 1 $17.36
Old School • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
One Wrong Step • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
Outside • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Popcorn • Amazon Business $14.53 1 $14.53
Exile (Keeper of the Lost Cities) • Amazon Business $14.43 1 $14.43
Please Pay Attention • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
Bad Kitty Cat-Nipped Edition • Amazon Business $14.37 1 $14.37
Eragon • Amazon Business $13.65 1 $13.65
Freakiest Trip Ever! (Middle School and Other Disasters) • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Norman and the Smell of Adventure • Amazon Business $13.36 1 $13.36
A First Time for Everything • Amazon Business $12.79 1 $12.79
The Humble Pie: A Funny and Empowering Food Group Story about Finding your Voice for Kids 4–8 (The Food Group) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Bad Kitty Goes to the Vet (full-color edition) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Worst Wish Ever! (Middle School and Other Disasters) • Amazon Business $10.10 1 $10.10
Bad Kitty School Daze (full-color edition) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Biggest Fake in the Universe • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Bad Kitty: Puppy's Big Day (full-color edition) • Amazon Business $9.59 1 $9.59
The Last Kids on Earth and the Destructor's Lair • Amazon Business $8.77 1 $8.77
Troubling Tonsils! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!) • Amazon Business $8.38 1 $8.38
Who Would Win?: Underwater Battles • Amazon Business $7.94 1 $7.94
Resist: A Story of D-Day • Amazon Business $6.97 1 $6.97
Stranded • Amazon Business $6.20 1 $6.20
How to Catch Santa Claus • Amazon Business $5.19 1 $5.19

Materials cost

$298.64

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $27.33

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.48

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$360.45

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$63.61

Total project goal

$424.06

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $424.06

2 Donors

-$224.53

Donations toward project cost

-$190.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.68

match offer

-$199.53

Match offer toward project cost

-$169.60

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.93

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