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Mr. Fix from New Haven, CT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Nutmeg Novels for New Haven

My students need books to meet their self-proclaimed challenge to have a voice in Connecticut's 2018 Nutmeg Book Award winner.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Fix's classroom raised $215

This project is fully funded

My Students

The Title I community school I teach at is in one of the roughest areas in a city in Connecticut. All of my students qualify for free breakfast and lunch. The vast majority of them live in non-traditional homes, and many deal with poverty. Some of my students have had parents or other close relatives in jail, and there is a very high crime rate in their neighborhoods, including shootings.

Yet even with these hardships, all of my students have one thing going for them -- they all yearn to learn.

Even the children who act extremely tough on the outside swell with pride when they master something new in class. Our school is often their safe place, and I believe a big part of my job is to make it a place where they begin to learn how to overcome their hardships.

My Project

A couple months ago you wonderful donors stepped up and provided several books for my fourth grade class. Some of those books had been nominated for past Nutmeg Awards -- a Connecticut book award where the CHILDREN vote for their favorite book and decide the winner. When I explained this award to my students they excitedly decided that they want to participate in the 2018 voting!

However, in order to fulfill my students' goal of voting for the 2018 Nutmeg Award, they need the 2018 Nutmeg-nominated books!

I've been able to find a few of them at library book sales, but most are newer books and not widely available used. Plus, fourth grade is right in the middle of the Elementary Nutmeg Award (grades 2-4) and Intermediate Nutmeg Award (grades 4-6). So for that reason, and to address my wide range of classroom readers, I need to obtain both sets of books.

My students have devoured and truly appreciate the books that you have already provided them via Donors Choose. Parents tell me that their children come home and talk about their wonderful classroom library. Please help us continue to build that library, and give my inner-city students the ability to cast their vote for the 2018 Nutmeg Awards.

Mr. Fix Lincoln-Bassett Community School Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse • Amazon Business $12.30 1 $12.30
Hippopotamister • Amazon Business $12.23 1 $12.23
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear • Amazon Business $10.51 1 $10.51
Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Blizzard • Amazon Business $9.66 1 $9.66
A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina’s Dream • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
The War That Saved My Life • Amazon Business $8.64 1 $8.64
Ratscalibur (Chronicles of the Low Realm) • Amazon Business $8.11 1 $8.11
Gabriel Finley and the Raven's Riddle • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Mango, Abuela, and Me • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Took: A Ghost Story • Amazon Business $7.58 1 $7.58
Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas • Amazon Business $7.54 1 $7.54
Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber • Amazon Business $7.26 1 $7.26
Kinda Like Brothers • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Under the Egg • Amazon Business $6.14 1 $6.14
The Tapper Twins Go to War (With Each Other) • Amazon Business $5.98 1 $5.98
Book Scavenger (The Book Scavenger series) • Amazon Business $4.83 1 $4.83
A Whole New Ballgame: A Rip and Red Book • Amazon Business $4.11 1 $4.11
The Year of Billy Miller • Amazon Business $3.84 1 $3.84

Materials cost

$150.38

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.26

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$182.64

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$32.23

Total project goal

$214.87

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $214.87

1 Donor

-$107.43

Donations toward project cost

-$91.32

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.11

match offer

-$107.44

Match offer toward project cost

-$91.32

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.12

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 $0.00

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