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Ms. Williams from Takoma Park MD is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Readers Are Leaders!

My students need new books in order to immerse themselves in various genres of books.

  • $462 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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.

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

My students are the most fun and creative little people I know. This groups of children love to learn and love being in school. I have had the opportunity to instill a love of learning in each and every one of the children that have entered my classroom.

My students love reading bright and colorful books about different cultures.

I've noticed that many of my students love the exposure to different types of books. My students love learning about the world outside of their town and about different types of people.

My Project

Reading books from different genres allows students to learn a lot about the world. I want to immerse my students in a world of literacy.

They will use these books to learn about the world, different cultures, different people, and themselves.

My hope is to help my students build an interest in reading again by providing them with books that look interesting to them.

Of course, we should teach children to judge a book by its cover but they need to find something good to look at. By giving them new colorful books they will be more interested in reading and learning.

Ms. Williams
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dreamers • Amazon Business $18.03 1 $18.03
Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World (Vashti Harrison) • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
What Should Danny Do? • Amazon Business $17.31 1 $17.31
National Geographic Kids Why?: Over 1,111 Answers to Everything • Amazon Business $16.53 1 $16.53
Rosie Revere, Engineer • Amazon Business $14.85 1 $14.85
Mixed: A Colorful Story • Amazon Business $14.13 1 $14.13
Pink Is for Boys • Amazon Business $14.13 1 $14.13
All Are Welcome • Amazon Business $14.13 1 $14.13
Lions & Liars • Amazon Business $13.57 1 $13.57
The Most Magnificent Thing • Amazon Business $13.56 1 $13.56
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Ada Twist, Scientist • Amazon Business $13.46 1 $13.46
The Wild Robot Escapes • Amazon Business $13.08 1 $13.08
A Family Is a Family Is a Family • Amazon Business $12.56 1 $12.56
Malala's Magic Pencil • Amazon Business $12.35 1 $12.35
I Walk with Vanessa: A Story About a Simple Act of Kindness • Amazon Business $12.32 1 $12.32
What Do You Do With an Idea? • Amazon Business $12.06 1 $12.06
Ivy & Bean's Secret Treasure Box (Books 1-3) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
What Do You Do With a Problem? • Amazon Business $11.00 1 $11.00
I Won't Give Up (Persistence Project) (Volume 2) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Bad Seed • Amazon Business $10.90 1 $10.90
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist • Amazon Business $10.78 1 $10.78
The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes • Amazon Business $10.78 1 $10.78
The Invisible Boy • Amazon Business $10.19 1 $10.19
Creepy Carrots! • Amazon Business $8.83 1 $8.83
I Was a Third Grade Spy • Amazon Business $4.34 1 $4.34
Horrible Harry Moves up to the Third Grade • Amazon Business $3.61 1 $3.61

Materials cost

$336.96

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$20.22

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.05

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$392.23

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$69.22

Total project goal

$461.45

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$461.45

6 Donors

-$366.45

Donations toward project cost

-$311.48

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.97

Matching donations from our partners

-$95.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$80.75

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.25

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$0.00

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