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Ms. Hopper from Sunland, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Promoting a Love for Reading

Help me give my students a classroom environment that promotes a love for learning and reading! I am trying to update my classroom library to appeal to all of my students.

  • $449 goal

This project expired on August 1, 2025.

This project expired on August 1, 2025.

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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 Project

I absolutely love to get my students excited about reading. My students need access to an updated classroom library so that they can get excited about reading time, book projects, and sharing recommendations amongst each other.

Additionally, my students have such varied interests and tastes and I want to be able to recommend books that correspond to their passions as well as introducing new genres, writing styles, and diverse authors and characters.

These books include a variety of mystery, biography, science fiction, and more! I truly believe that there is a book out there for each and every student that will unlock their love for reading!

Ms. Hopper Mount Gleason Middle School Grades 6-8

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than three‑quarters of 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

90 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Giver Quartet Box Set: The Complete Giver Quartet Series in a Giftable Box Set: the Giver, Gathering Blue, the Messenger, Son • Amazon Business $49.99 1 $49.99
Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board • Amazon Business $24.05 1 $24.05
Fish in a Tree • Amazon Business $10.09 2 $20.18
Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) (The Hunger Games) • Amazon Business $19.59 1 $19.59
The Giver Graphic Novel (Giver Quartet, 1) • Amazon Business $9.13 2 $18.26
The House in Poplar Wood: (Fantasy Middle Grade Novel, Mystery Book for Middle School Kids) • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
The City of Ember (The City of Ember Book 1) • Amazon Business $6.39 2 $12.78
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition • Amazon Business $12.75 1 $12.75
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers • Amazon Business $12.03 1 $12.03
When You Reach Me • Amazon Business $11.93 1 $11.93
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition • Amazon Business $5.85 2 $11.70
Misty: My Journey Through Volleyball and Life • Amazon Business $11.38 1 $11.38
Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive • Amazon Business $11.25 1 $11.25
Hook's Daughter: The Untold Tale of a Pirate Princess (The Pirate Princess Chronicles) • Amazon Business $10.60 1 $10.60
When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Why Soccer Matters: A Look at More Than Sixty Years of International Soccer • Amazon Business $9.44 1 $9.44
Throw Like a Girl: How to Dream Big & Believe in Yourself • Amazon Business $8.88 1 $8.88
Summer of the Monkeys • Amazon Business $8.36 1 $8.36
Greystone Secrets #1: The Strangers • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
A Properly Unhaunted Place • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Beyond the Bright Sea • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Awkward (Berrybrook Middle School, 1) • Amazon Business $7.02 1 $7.02
An Elephant in the Garden: Inspired by a True Story • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99

Materials cost

$317.73

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$29.07

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.77

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$381.57

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$67.34

Total project goal

$448.91

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