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Mrs. Searcy from Cleveland Heights, OH is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Readers Today, Leaders Tomorrow!

Help me give my students new books to take home so that they can diversify their home libraries with current titles!

  • $418 goal

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My Project

Your generous donation to this project will provide students with current titles that they can take home to add to their personal libraries. At our annual Literacy Night Event this project will allow students to go home with a new book that they can select themselves.

With these new books, my students will be given the opportunity to develop a passion for independent reading.

Titles were selected to provide stories that represent the diversity of our student population, along with popular titles that students have requested. Students are excited about the chance to select a new book to call their own.

Mrs. Searcy Monticello Middle School Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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Cleveland Heights, OH View local requests

More than half 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

50 students impacted 1donor

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Cool. Awkward. Black. • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Diper Överlöde (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 17) • Amazon Business $8.79 2 $17.58
Big Shot Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 16 • Amazon Business $7.83 2 $15.66
The King Inside: Practical Advice for Young African-American Males • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Girl on Fire • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Hey, Brown Girl • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Girls I've Been • Amazon Business $13.51 1 $13.51
100 Things Black Boys Should Do and Know • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Swim Team • Amazon Business $11.04 1 $11.04
Jessi's Secret Language: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-sitters Club #12) (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Mom and Teen: A Back and Forth Journal for Mother and Son • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Calling My Name • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Mom and Teen: An Activity Journal and Diary for Mother and Daughter • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
Operation Sisterhood • Amazon Business $10.54 1 $10.54
Shuri and T'Challa: Into the Heartlands (An Original Black Panther Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
Mary Anne's Bad Luck Mystery: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-sitters Club #13) (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix) • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Claudia and the New Girl: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-sitters Club #9) (9) (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix) • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
Shuri: A Black Panther Novel (Marvel) (1) • Amazon Business $9.67 1 $9.67
I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005: A Graphic Novel (I Survived Graphic Novel #6) (I Survived Graphix) • Amazon Business $9.60 1 $9.60
I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001: A Graphic Novel (I Survived Graphic Novel #4) (4) (I Survived Graphix) • Amazon Business $9.00 1 $9.00
Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Keeps Punching (A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 3) (Tristan Strong, 3) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Destroys the World (A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 2) (Tristan Strong, 2) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Dork Diaries 11: Tales from a Not-So-Friendly Frenemy (11) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Spider-Man: Spider-Verse - Miles Morales (Into the Spider-Verse: Miles Morales, 1) • Amazon Business $8.41 1 $8.41
Miles Morales: Spider-Man (A Marvel YA Novel) • Amazon Business $8.29 1 $8.29
Miles Morales: Shock Waves (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
I Survived: The Shark Attacks of 1916 • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Black Panther: The Battle for Wakanda (A Mighty Marvel Chapter Book) • Amazon Business $5.68 1 $5.68
I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74

Materials cost

$320.13

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.80

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$354.93

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$62.63

Total project goal

$417.56

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $417.56

1 Donor

-$417.56

Donations toward project cost

-$354.93

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$62.63

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