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Mr. Veazey from Baton Rouge LA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Operation Empty Shelves

My students need - and deserve - a library filled with books of varied genres, levels, and topics.

  • $1,138 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

The kids that come into my library are survivors. My students are PreK to Grade 5 and mostly come from low-income areas, but their hunger for knowledge is real.

The Louisiana Flood of 2016 may have washed away their belongings, but it has not diminished their spirits.

These kids are true learners, and they deserve every opportunity to achieve greatness.

Good hearts, capable minds, eyes open wide - my students have all of these. All they need is a chance to put them to use.

My Project

After the Louisiana Flood of 2016, I returned to my school library to check it out after being under water. The books were gone. I would have no chance to save titles on higher shelves such as my signed edition of Dear Hank Williams from when Kimberly Willis Holt visited my school, or a brand new copy of Counting Thyme that I bought for the library after tearing through it on the beach this past summer, or all of the graphic novels I’d spent the last year collecting because my students couldn’t get enough of El Deafo, The Dumbest Idea Ever!, Roller Girl, & Sunny Side Up. I don’t want to talk about the ones that I haven’t even gotten to read yet like The Seventh Wish or Jack & Louisa: Act 2.

I tried to tell myself that they were “only books,” but anyone who has ever loved a book knows that there is no such thing as “only books.” Why am I reminiscing about every wonderful book that comes to mind?

The answer is simple. I need help.

Glen Oaks Park Elementary is relocating. We’ve been ushered over to a building that was built in 1937. That means my new school is the same age as And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street. It also means that, in my first year as a librarian, I have a library without any books.

Access to books is the key to educational success. Our library doesn’t have books. Our classrooms don’t have books. Many of the homes of our students don’t have books. Like the tears that rolled down our faces both in silent & violent measures, they became a part of the flood before being swept away as we looked toward rebuilding & recovery.

Mr. Veazey
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Last Stop on Market Street • Amazon Business $9.49 3 $28.47
Mary Anne Saves the Day: Full-Color Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix #3) • Amazon Business $24.99 1 $24.99
The Truth About Stacey: Full-Color Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix #2) • Amazon Business $20.49 1 $20.49
Miracle's Boys (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) • Amazon Business $18.40 1 $18.40
Wonderstruck (Schneider Family Book Award - Middle School Winner) • Amazon Business $18.29 1 $18.29
The Marvels • Amazon Business $18.14 1 $18.14
Kristy's Great Idea: Full-Color Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix #1) • Amazon Business $17.49 1 $17.49
Drama • Amazon Business $17.49 1 $17.49
Rosa • Amazon Business $16.91 1 $16.91
Sunny Side Up • Amazon Business $16.79 1 $16.79
Sisters • Amazon Business $16.49 1 $16.49
El Deafo (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) • Amazon Business $15.71 1 $15.71
Claudia and Mean Janine: Full-Color Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix #4) • Amazon Business $15.61 1 $15.61
Smile • Amazon Business $15.26 1 $15.26
Roller Girl • Amazon Business $15.05 1 $15.05
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem's Greatest Bookstore (Carolrhoda Picture Books) • Amazon Business $14.80 1 $14.80
Liar & Spy • Amazon Business $14.41 1 $14.41
Esperanza Renace (Esperanza Rising) (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $14.08 1 $14.08
After Tupac and D Foster (Newbery Honor Book) • Amazon Business $13.96 1 $13.96
Viva Frida (Morales, Yuyi) • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
The Invention of Hugo Cabret • Amazon Business $13.74 1 $13.74
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $13.68 1 $13.68
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement (Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor (Awards)) • Amazon Business $13.63 1 $13.63
Show Way • Amazon Business $13.47 1 $13.47
Each Kindness (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Maximilian & the Mystery of the Guardian Angel: A Bilingual Lucha Libre Thriller (Max's Lucha Libre Adventures) (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir • Amazon Business $12.78 1 $12.78
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music • Amazon Business $12.74 1 $12.74
Firebird • Amazon Business $12.73 1 $12.73
Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors • Amazon Business $12.67 1 $12.67
Tough Guys Have Feelings Too • Amazon Business $12.56 1 $12.56
Trombone Shorty • Amazon Business $12.55 1 $12.55
The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend • Amazon Business $12.08 1 $12.08
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread • Amazon Business $12.02 1 $12.02
Echo • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Brown Girl Dreaming (Newbery Honor Book) • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Out of My Mind • Amazon Business $11.84 1 $11.84
Mango, Abuela, and Me • Amazon Business $11.84 1 $11.84
The Nest (Ala Notable Children's Books. Middle Readers) • Amazon Business $11.61 1 $11.61
The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles • Amazon Business $11.35 1 $11.35
Niño Wrestles the World (Golden Kite Honors) • Amazon Business $11.33 1 $11.33
When You Reach Me • Amazon Business $11.29 1 $11.29
Waiting • Amazon Business $11.26 1 $11.26
Bink and Gollie (Junior Library Guild Selection (Candlewick Press)) • Amazon Business $11.10 1 $11.10
Nightbird • Amazon Business $11.03 1 $11.03
Circus Mirandus • Amazon Business $10.97 1 $10.97
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures • Amazon Business $10.97 1 $10.97
Fish in a Tree • Amazon Business $10.76 1 $10.76
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear • Amazon Business $10.71 1 $10.71
Locomotion (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books) • Amazon Business $10.62 1 $10.62
All American Boys • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
Goodbye Stranger (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards)) • Amazon Business $10.36 1 $10.36
Raymie Nightingale • Amazon Business $10.36 1 $10.36
The War that Saved My Life • Amazon Business $10.36 1 $10.36
The One and Only Ivan • Amazon Business $10.36 1 $10.36
Crenshaw • Amazon Business $10.36 1 $10.36
The Crossover • Amazon Business $10.36 1 $10.36
Return • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Thing About Jellyfish • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane • Amazon Business $9.28 1 $9.28
Lost in the Sun • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Stella by Starlight • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Dog Man: From the Creator of Captain Underpants (Dog Man #1) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Double Down (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #11) • Amazon Business $7.92 1 $7.92
Peace, Locomotion (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) • Amazon Business $7.32 1 $7.32

Materials cost

$849.78

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$74.36

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$966.89

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$170.63

Total project goal

$1,137.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,137.52

8 Donors

-$1,137.52

Donations toward project cost

-$966.89

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$170.63

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$0.00

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