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Mrs. Prusak from Lorain OH is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Reading for Enrichment

Help me give my students diverse books for enrichment in the resource room.

  • $902 goal

This project expired on March 28, 2022.

This project expired on March 28, 2022.

My Students

I am a special education teacher for students in grades 9-12. My students have varying degrees of learning difficulties. They attend an alternative program that focuses on credit recovery and dropout prevention.

Most of my students struggle to get their basic needs met.

Due to the extremely high poverty rates in our community, all students in the district receive free meals. Additionally, most, if not all, of my students have experienced significant traumas in their families and neighborhoods.

My students are resilient, hardworking and they are eager to learn. They deserve the opportunity to succeed in school and beyond. They deserve to have access to the tools that are available to other students in better-funded school settings.

My Project

I would like to provide some new books for my students to consider reading over the winter break. Due to their learning differences and unique circumstances, it is important that the resource room offers books and learning resources that are culturally diverse and cover a variety of reading levels.

All of these books have been chosen with my students in mind.

I selected books that reflect their own cultural backgrounds and personal experiences. My desire is to inspire my students to improve their reading comprehension and written expression by providing materials that are of interest to them.

Mrs. Prusak
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
They Called Me 299-359: Poetry by the Incarcerated Youth of Free Minds (Shout Mouse Press Young Adult Books) • Amazon Business $14.99 2 $29.98
Hey, Kiddo • AKJ Education $18.24 1 $18.24
Our Lives Matter: The Ballou Story Project (Shout Mouse Press Young Adult Books) • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
How I Resist • AKJ Education $16.05 1 $16.05
(Don't) Call Me Crazy • AKJ Education $15.26 1 $15.26
Voces Sin Fronteras: Our Stories, Our Truth (Bilingual) (Shout Mouse Press Young Adult Books) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
When You Hear Me (You Hear Us): Voices on Youth Incarceration (Shout Mouse Press Young Adult Books) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Untold Story Of The Real Me: Young Voices From Prison (Shout Mouse Press Young Adult Books) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Vincent and Theo • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
Dissenter on the Bench • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Dear Evan Hansen • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
I'll Give You the Sun • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Say Her Name • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
The 57 Bus • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Glimmer of Hope • AKJ Education $13.14 1 $13.14
Patron Saints of Nothing • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
We Are Okay • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
None of the Above • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Joe Quinn's Poltergeist • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Words on Bathroom Walls • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Cursed • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Girl Mans Up • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Day Tajon Got Shot (Shout Mouse Press Young Adult Books) • Amazon Business $12.79 1 $12.79
The Help • AKJ Education $12.41 1 $12.41
Everything I Never Told You • AKJ Education $12.41 1 $12.41
A Thousand Splendid Suns • AKJ Education $12.41 1 $12.41
Bell Jar, The • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Life of Pi A Novel • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
I Was their American Dream • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences • AKJ Education $12.37 1 $12.37
The Odyssey • AKJ Education $12.35 1 $12.35
The Kite Runner (10th Anniversary) • AKJ Education $11.90 1 $11.90
Tweak Growing Up on Methamphetamines • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
The Bluest Eye • AKJ Education $10.91 1 $10.91
Fences • AKJ Education $10.22 1 $10.22
Things Fall Apart: A Novel • AKJ Education $10.22 1 $10.22
Some Assembly Required The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
The Poet X • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Fahrenheit 451: A Novel • AKJ Education $8.80 1 $8.80
Of Mice and Men • AKJ Education $8.76 1 $8.76
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • AKJ Education $8.75 1 $8.75
Reality Boy • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Just Mercy • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
The Upside of Unrequited • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Twisted • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Wintergirls • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Every Falling Star • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Black Like Me • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Things I Should Have Known • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Trash • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
145th Street • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Drowned City • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Mexican WhiteBoy • AKJ Education $6.99 1 $6.99
Animal Farm • AKJ Education $6.99 1 $6.99
The Book Thief • AKJ Education $6.98 1 $6.98
1984 • AKJ Education $6.85 1 $6.85
Lord of the Flies • AKJ Education $6.58 1 $6.58
Bronx Masquerade • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas • AKJ Education $6.38 1 $6.38
Chains: Seeds of America • AKJ Education $5.98 1 $5.98
The Catcher in the Rye • AKJ Education $5.98 1 $5.98
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Carrie • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
A Raisin in the Sun (Common Core Exemplar) • AKJ Education $5.57 1 $5.57
Dracula • AKJ Education $4.34 1 $4.34
The Story of My Life • AKJ Education $4.34 1 $4.34

Materials cost

$719.16

Vendor shipping charges

$6.00

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.79

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$765.95

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$135.17

Total project goal

$901.12

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