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Ms. Jones from Tuscaloosa AL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Readers Are Leaders!

Help me give my students new, exciting books for our diverse classroom library!

  • $471 goal

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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 Project

Hi! I currently teach 5th at a Title 1 Elementary school in Tuscaloosa, AL. As we begin a new school year, it is important that I restock our classroom library with new. We plan to spend a lot of time this school year enjoying quiet reading time with tangible books in our hands.

My goal is to have tons of new, exciting, diverse books at the fingertips of each child so that every child can find enjoyment in what they read.

Please help restock our classroom library with some new, diverse, exciting reads for this school year.

Ms. Jones
Grades 3-5

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Reader's Theater: Grades 5-6 Set • AKJ Education $29.99 1 $29.99
Mixed Me! • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
The Girl Who Drank the Moon • AKJ Education $16.16 1 $16.16
The 57 Bus • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
The Unwanted • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Temple Grandin • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Say Her Name • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Under My Hijab • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Maybe Something Beautiful • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Unspeakable • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Youngest Marcher • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Where Are You From? • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Proudest Blue • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Corn Is Maize • AKJ Education $5.10 2 $10.20
Science Comics: Solar System • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Sunny Side Up • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Big Nate • AKJ Education $8.75 1 $8.75
Too Many Tamales • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Tar Beach • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Abiyoyo Based on a South African Lullaby and Folk Story • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Ninth Ward • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Whoever You Are • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Whistle for Willie • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
New Shoes • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Young Readers' Edition • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Bee-bim Bop! • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Magic Trash • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Adelita A Mexican Cinderella Story • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
The Skirt • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Graphic Sparks Time Blasters Blast to the Past • AKJ Education $4.34 1 $4.34

Materials cost

$337.62

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $27.52

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.06

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$400.20

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$70.62

Total project goal

$470.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $470.82

5 Donors

-$244.42

Donations toward project cost

-$210.73

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.69

Matching donations from our partners

-$222.91

Match offers toward project cost

-$189.47

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.44

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.50

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

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