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Ms. Del Dotto from Chicago IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Pandemic Classroom Library Replenish

Help me give my students a variety of high-interest texts for our classroom library.

  • $823 goal

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Hooray! This project is fully funded

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

We are a school on the far northeast side of Chicago where 100% of the students receive free lunch. Due to the lack of funding, I am not able to buy any new books for my 6th grade Language Arts classroom. We are trying to improve test scores and prepare for the new Common Core assessments, but we do not have the resources we need. Our students are wonderful and work extremely hard. They often comment on our lack, of quality reading materials, and it is easy to see their disappointment. In March I let my students take home a majority of the books in our classroom library, so they would have something to read while learning at home. Once the year ended and my students moved on to the next grade those books became theirs.

I need to replace the books from our classroom library that were lost in the quick move to remote learning at the beginning of the pandemic so my current students have a variety of texts to read.

My Project

The love of reading is important for my students success. As we are still learning at home, my students access to a variety of books is at an all time low. The internet is great, but cracking open a good book can't be compared to.

I want my students to have a love for reading, but that is hard to do when a pandemic makes accessing books impossible.

I need to refill our classroom library with a variety of high interest texts, so my students will get excited about reading again.

Ms. Del Dotto
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Almost Astronauts • AKJ Education $18.24 1 $18.24
You Don't Know Me • AKJ Education $8.02 2 $16.04
Watership Down: A Novel • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
The Great and Only Barnum • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
Tell Them We Remember • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Zlata's Diary • AKJ Education $12.41 1 $12.41
The Abracadabra Kid • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
The Impossible Rescue • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History • AKJ Education $11.87 1 $11.87
To Kill a Mockingbird • AKJ Education $11.19 1 $11.19
Now Is Your Time! • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
Here in Harlem • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Homecoming • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian • AKJ Education $9.12 1 $9.12
We Are Witnesses • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Children of the Wild West • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Bad Boy • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Children of the Dust Bowl • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
The Alchemyst • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
A Great and Terrible Beauty • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Cowboys of the Wild West • AKJ Education $7.99 1 $7.99
Night • AKJ Education $7.70 1 $7.70
The Face on the Milk Carton • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
The Yearling • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Gathering Blue • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Athletic Shorts • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Earth-Friendly Waste Management • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Hoops • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Whatever Happened to Janie? • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Hana's Suitcase • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Childtimes • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Pyramid • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
The Maze Runner • AKJ Education $6.99 1 $6.99
The Book Thief • AKJ Education $6.98 1 $6.98
The Giver • AKJ Education $6.98 1 $6.98
Touching Spirit Bear • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Black Heroes of the American Revolution • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Stormbreaker • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Homesick (Puffin Modern Classics) • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Stowaway • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Travel Team • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Within Reach • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Where the Lilies Bloom • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Izzy, Willy-Nilly • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Artemis Fowl • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Queen Eleanor • AKJ Education $6.53 1 $6.53
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
The Hobbit • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
Dragonwings: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1903 • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Endless Steppe Growing Up in Siberia • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Anthony Burns • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Frozen in Time • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Surviving Hitler • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Black Pearl • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Children of the River • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Brian's Song Screenplay • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Great Little Madison • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
I Have Lived a Thousand Years • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
M.C. Higgins, the Great • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Jacob Have I Loved • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
My Brother Sam Is Dead • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Milkweed • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
April Morning • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
White Fang • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Letters from a Slave Girl • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Nelson Mandela • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Classics) • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Out of the Dust • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
Hoot • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
Traitor • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Make Way for Sam Houston • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Boy Who Reversed Himself • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt! • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Master Puppeteer • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Call It Courage • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Bull Run • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Lost Garden • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Call of the Wild • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Living Up the Street • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Oddballs • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Diary of a Young Girl • AKJ Education $4.89 1 $4.89
The Story of My Life • AKJ Education $4.34 1 $4.34
Brothers in Arms • AKJ Education $3.65 1 $3.65

Materials cost

$653.61

Vendor shipping charges

$6.00

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.80

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$699.41

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$123.43

Total project goal

$822.84

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$822.84

4 Donors

-$822.84

Donations toward project cost

-$699.41

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$123.43

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