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Ms. Dugan from Reno NV is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

New Books, New Worlds

Help me give my students new, relevant, culturally diverse books that will transport them to new worlds!

  • $1,002 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Our scholars love to read, but our library is out of date. Our library also does not reflect our school's population. We are in desperate need of new books that reflect the diverse culture of our school family.

About 85% of our scholars have experienced severe trauma in their lives; books help them escape to different worlds.

Our school becomes like a home for them. Even during breaks, our scholars are here at school spending time in a safe place. To help them in their endeavors, our school library is in desperate need of new books that highlight their interests, passions, culture, and reflect relevant and current issues.

My Project

Our scholars love to read, but we don't have many options for them. I want to build them a library that captures their imaginations and takes them to places they've never been. I would like to have books that will hold their interests and keep them reading! The books I've selected were chosen from a list scholars gave me. They want to read these books!

Scholars at my school do not have books that reflect their culture, their interests, or their dreams.

The more books we have that are interesting for our scholars, the more likely they are to keep reading! Helping scholars begin to learn that reading is fun is a perfect way to build better readers.

Ms. Dugan
Grades 9-12

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Flowers in the Attic Saga: Flowers in the Attic/Petals on the Wind; If There Be Thorns/Seeds of Yesterday; Garden of Shadows (Dollanganger) • Amazon Business $29.39 1 $29.39
My Own Words • Amazon Business $20.40 1 $20.40
To All the Boys I've Loved Before • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel • Amazon Business $17.68 1 $17.68
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane • Amazon Business $17.41 1 $17.41
A Spark of Light: A Novel • Amazon Business $17.39 1 $17.39
Educated: A Memoir • Amazon Business $16.80 1 $16.80
The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel • Amazon Business $16.80 1 $16.80
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood • Amazon Business $16.80 1 $16.80
The Witch Elm: A Novel • Amazon Business $16.80 1 $16.80
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen • Amazon Business $16.72 1 $16.72
Animal Farm • Amazon Business $16.06 1 $16.06
Still I Rise: The Persistence of Phenomenal Women • Amazon Business $15.72 1 $15.72
I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons • Amazon Business $15.16 1 $15.16
It: A Novel • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Last Black Unicorn • Amazon Business $14.98 1 $14.98
Dear Martin • Amazon Business $7.40 2 $14.80
Notorious RBG Young Readers' Edition: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Amazon Business $14.66 1 $14.66
Empire State of Mind: How Jay Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office, Revised Edition • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
Amal Unbound • Amazon Business $14.03 1 $14.03
Ghost Boys • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
The Kite Runner • Amazon Business $12.96 1 $12.96
Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding • Amazon Business $12.75 1 $12.75
We Were the Lucky Ones: A Novel • Amazon Business $12.75 1 $12.75
The Shining • Amazon Business $12.71 1 $12.71
The Education of Margot Sanchez • Amazon Business $12.55 1 $12.55
Pride • Amazon Business $12.32 1 $12.32
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Michelle Obama: A Life • Amazon Business $11.55 1 $11.55
The Storyteller • Amazon Business $11.54 1 $11.54
Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings • Amazon Business $11.52 1 $11.52
Snitch • Amazon Business $11.44 1 $11.44
Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
2am Thoughts • Amazon Business $10.76 1 $10.76
3:59 • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Darius & Twig • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Mexican WhiteBoy • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
When We Collided • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Problem with Forever (Harlequin Teen) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Monster: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Tyrell • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Ten • Amazon Business $9.97 1 $9.97
The Fault in Our Stars • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
American Born Chinese • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano • Amazon Business $9.86 1 $9.86
Dead Girls Don't Lie • Amazon Business $9.69 1 $9.69
Never Always Sometimes: A coming-of-age novel (Harlequin Teen) • Amazon Business $9.64 1 $9.64
Lockdown • Amazon Business $9.41 1 $9.41
Lucy and Linh • Amazon Business $9.19 1 $9.19
If I Fix You (Harlequin Teen) • Amazon Business $9.11 1 $9.11
Pet Sematary: A Novel • Amazon Business $8.54 1 $8.54
Life of Pi • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Homeboyz (Hoopster Trilogy) • Amazon Business $7.55 1 $7.55
Ghost (Track) • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
November Blues (The Jericho Trilogy) • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Paranoid Park • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Stella by Starlight • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
Soar • Amazon Business $6.54 1 $6.54
Tears of a Tiger • Amazon Business $6.48 1 $6.48
Forged by Fire • Amazon Business $6.48 1 $6.48
Black Book of Poems • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$751.35

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $58.98

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.27

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$851.60

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$150.28

Total project goal

$1,001.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,001.88

10 Donors

-$876.88

Donations toward project cost

-$745.35

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$131.53

match offer

-$125.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$106.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.75

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

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