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My Project
For students to grow as readers, they need to be exposed to hundreds of books throughout their educational career. Years ago, students were given books that their teacher had chosen to read, with little input from the students. I strive to be different.
I believe that student choice in their reading is vital to student success. I am working to create a leveled library that will help give my students choice in my classroom. As a upper grade teacher, I have students reading on various levels each year. My vision is to have a library full of different books, on different levels to meet the needs and interests of all of my students. Over the course of my career I have found that often students dislike reading because they have not found a book they enjoy. My goal is to change that.
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Materials
Cost
Quantity
Total
Melissa (paperback) - formerly published as George
• DonorsChoose Featured Favorites
$10.00
5
$50.00
The Bookseller of Dachau: Absolutely heartbreaking and totally gripping World War 2 fiction
• Amazon Business
$9.99
5
$49.95
Marley: A Dog Like No Other
• Amazon Business
$9.97
5
$49.85
The Underground Abductor: Bigger & Badder Edition (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #5): An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman
• Amazon Business
$9.74
5
$48.70
When Stars Are Scattered: (National Book Award Finalist)
• Amazon Business
$9.23
5
$46.15
Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
• Amazon Business
$8.99
5
$44.95
Fast Pitch
• Amazon Business
$8.36
5
$41.80
The Maze of Bones
• Amazon Business
$8.11
5
$40.55
Pax - Paperback Book
• AKJ Education
$8.02
5
$40.10
Granted
• Amazon Business
$7.87
5
$39.35
The Year I Flew Away
• Amazon Business
$7.42
5
$37.10
Savvy - Paperback Book
• AKJ Education
$7.29
5
$36.45
One Crazy Summer: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
• Amazon Business
$6.92
5
$34.60
Starfish
• Amazon Business
$6.90
5
$34.50
The Bridge Home
• Amazon Business
$6.61
5
$33.05
The Night Diary - Paperback Book
• AKJ Education
$6.56
5
$32.80
Rump: The (Fairly) True Tale of Rumpelstiltskin - Paperback Book
• AKJ Education
$6.56
5
$32.80
The Fourteenth Goldfish - Paperback Book
• AKJ Education
$6.56
5
$32.80
Because of Mr. Terupt - Paperback Book
• AKJ Education
$6.56
5
$32.80
Mr. Lemoncello's Library - Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library - Paperback Book
• AKJ Education
$6.56
5
$32.80
Ghost (1) (Track)
• Amazon Business
$6.29
5
$31.45
Ungifted
• Amazon Business
$5.90
5
$29.50
The Wishing Spell (The Land of Stories, 1)
• Amazon Business
$5.41
5
$27.05
Midnight at the Barclay Hotel
• Amazon Business
$4.95
5
$24.75
Materials cost
$903.85
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$13.56
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$947.41
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$167.19
Total project goal
$1,114.60
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