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Mrs. Owens from Fresno CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Ravenous Readers Need Books to Devour

My students need quality biography books in their reading level. They are excited to learn about men and women throughout history. The resources online are at a reading level that is too high for my students.

  • $622 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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 Students

My students love reading, learning and are very inquisitive. They are inspired when they read about men and women who, even at an early age were creative, helpful and diligent. It is important to provide research material that is in the students' reading level. There are many well written biographies that are geared for children to read independently.

Reading captures the imagination of students.

It opens up a whole world that never existed before they opened a biography. They can use these books to research, write, and present what they have learned.They are excited about new information, and each student is proud of their reading ability, research skills, and perseverance.

They are a community of caring, cooperative, and diligent students.

My Project

These biography books will inspire my students to work diligently, strive to be their very best, and reach for their dreams. With these books, they will be able to research and write biography reports that they will present to fellow classmates.

They are fascinated by the lives of the great men and women throughout the world.

These books will enhance their excitement of learning. They will share their questions and insight with their teacher, classmates and families. I will assign projects based on their biography books. They need books in their reading level in order to complete and present these biography projects.

Mrs. Owens
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln • AKJ Education $17.96 1 $17.96
Monet Paints a Day • AKJ Education $14.36 1 $14.36
Through Georgia's Eyes • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
I am Jackie Robinson • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
I am Amelia Earhart • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
I am Rosa Parks • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
I am Albert Einstein • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
I Am Abraham Lincoln • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
Who Invented the Ferris Wheel? George Ferris • AKJ Education $6.83 1 $6.83
Amelia Earhart • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Alexander Graham Bell • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
George Washington Carver • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Elizabeth Leads the Way Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Rosa • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Chocolate by Hershey A Story About Milton S. Hershey • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
César Chávez • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Benjamin Franklin Writer, Inventor, Statesman • AKJ Education $6.53 1 $6.53
Hernando Cortés: SPAnish Invader of Mexico • AKJ Education $6.53 1 $6.53
Bessie Coleman Daring Stunt Pilot • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
The Wright Brothers and the Airplane • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
America's Champion Swimmer Gertrude Ederle • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Fly High! The Story of Bessie Coleman • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
A Picture Book of Sacagawea • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
A Picture Book of Rosa Parks • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
A Picture Book of Davy Crockett • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Honest Abe • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Pride of Puerto Rico: The Life of Roberto Clemente • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
A Picture Book of Cesar Chavez • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Who Was Jackie Robinson? • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Who Was Milton Hershey? • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
What's The Big Idea, Ben Franklin? • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King Jr. • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Story Of Ruby Bridges: Special Anniversary Edition (Common Core Exemplar) • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition • AKJ Education $4.85 1 $4.85
Who Was Davy Crockett? • AKJ Education $4.79 1 $4.79
Who Is Bill Gates? • AKJ Education $4.79 1 $4.79
Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder? • AKJ Education $4.79 1 $4.79
Who Was Sacagawea? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Sally Ride? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Henry Ford? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Roald Dahl? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Albert Einstein? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Neil Armstrong? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Ben Franklin? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Amelia Earhart? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Daniel Boone? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Dr. Seuss? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
George Washington Carver: The Peanut Wizard • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Ferdinand Magellan? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Marco Polo? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Jackie Robinson? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Galileo? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Roberto Clemente? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Walt Disney? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was George Washington? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Were the Wright Brothers? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Is Jane Goodall? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Is Muhammad Ali? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was George Washington Carver? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Alexander Graham Bell? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Theodore Roosevelt? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer (Step Into Reading, Step 4) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Babe Ruth Saves Baseball! • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Becoming Babe Ruth • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
George Washington and the General's Dog • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Jackie Robinson and the Story of All Black Baseball • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Ellen Ochoa • AKJ Education $3.61 1 $3.61
George Washington Soldier, Hero, President • AKJ Education $3.59 1 $3.59
Dr. Seuss: The Great Doodler • AKJ Education $3.59 1 $3.59
Scholastic Reader Level 3: When I Grow Up: Sonia Sotomayor • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
Amelia Earhart More Than a Flier • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
Teddy Roosevelt The People's President • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
Escape North! The Story of Harriet Tubman • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
Albert Einstein Genius of the Twentieth Century • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91

Materials cost

$450.38

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$41.21

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.76

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$528.35

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$93.24

Total project goal

$621.59

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$621.59

42 Donors

-$611.06

Donations toward project cost

-$528.34

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$82.72

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.52

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