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Mr. Kiesel from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Scare Kids to Read: Disgusting, Fearful Literacy Motivators

My students need 50 creepy, oozy, eerie, and terrifyingly fun books, from R.L. Stein's "Monster Blood" to the hyper-popular "Twilight".

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Kiesel's classroom raised $568

This project is fully funded

I teach fifth grade in an urban school where 99% of the students receive free or reduced price lunches. We have a high transient population and this year 50% of our new transfer students are homeless. I'm in charge of thirty students and we're in serious need of resources. Few of my students read at home or come from homes where reading is encouraged or fostered

To put it simply, my students are far behind on their reading levels. On average my class is two years behind level. The difficulty is partially their level, but also the growing frustration that the kids feel when they consistently struggle with their material. I've been working with them over the past two months to encourage them and to urge them into tackling whatever reading they are able to. We work as best we can on reading comprehension skills and active reading strategies, but we're always faced with a shortage of books they find interesting which are also level appropriate. The only way for them to really increase their reading levels is for them to read more. They need to take the skills that we learn in class and apply them to the books that they are reading on their own and that interest them.

I’ve found that one of the best motivators for my students, especially the young boys in my class, is providing them with fun, quality books featuring ghosts, spooky stores, oozes, slime, and vampires to read. These books are engaging and contain wonderful lessons in dialogue, character, plot, theme, and setting. All of the skills we work on in class can be bolstered using Goosebumps and Twilight. These books are familiar to the kids and not intimidating like many of the other young adult novels I’ve gotten for the class. My students need access to engaging and interesting books that they can read and understand. Sometimes a child will fight you at every turn when you’re trying to get them to read Trumpet of the Swan will secretly read a Goosebumps book under their desk the rest of the day.

This is where you can help. With your donation, we’ll be able to stock our classroom library with a rich assortment of highly interesting, richly details, and pleasantly disgusting novels for kids. With this resource, you’ll be providing my classroom with fun, creative, and highly engaging books. These will not only reinforce the skills we’re learning in class, but also act as wonderful inspiration of our own creative projects. For much of my class this will be the donation that not only gives them materials to read, but also exposes them to reading that is fun. It is this type of reading, the fun, adventurous, and exciting reading, which starts kids on the path toward becoming book lovers and lifetime readers.

Mr. Kiesel Lavizzo Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Nearly all 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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Freaks and Shrieks R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
Monster Blood For Breakfast! (Goosebumps Horrorland Series #3) R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
New Moon Stephenie Meyer • Barnes and Noble $13.99 1 $13.99
Eclipse Stephenie Meyer • Barnes and Noble $13.99 1 $13.99
Twilight Stephenie Meyer • Barnes and Noble $13.99 1 $13.99
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Scary Tales to Read Together Mary Ann Hoberman, Michael Emberley (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.59 1 $13.59
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm • Barnes and Noble $17.98 1 $17.98
The Scary Stories Treasury: Three Books to Chill Your Bones A. Schwartz • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
Scary Stories Barry Moser (Illustrator), Peter Glassman (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $15.25 1 $15.25
Haunted Mask (Classic Goosebumps Series #4) R.L. Stine, R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Deep Trouble (Classic Goosebumps Series #2) R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Night of the Living Dummy (Classic Goosebumps Series #1) R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
R. L. Stine Hal Marcovitz, Foreword by Kyle Zimmer • Barnes and Noble $27.00 1 $27.00
Terror Trips (Goosebumps Graphix Series #2) R. L. Stine, Jill Thompson (Illustrator), Jamie Tolagson (Illustrator), Amy Kim Ganter (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
Monster Blood (Classic Goosebumps Series #3) R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
My Friends Call Me Monster (Goosebumps Horrorland Series #7) R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Who's Your Mummy? (Goosebumps Horrorland Series #6) R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Creep from the Deep (Goosebumps Horrorland Series #2) Stine • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Dr. Maniac vs. Robby Schwartz (Goosebumps Horrorland Series #5) R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
The Scream of the Haunted Mask (Goosebumps Horrorland Series #4) R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Revenge of the Living Dummy (Goosebumps Horrorland Series #1) Stine • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
R. L. Stine Neil Purslow • Barnes and Noble $23.40 1 $23.40
Lose, Team, Lose! (Rotten School Series #4) R. L. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Creepy Creatures (Goosebumps Graphix Series #1) R. L. Stine, Scott Morse (Illustrator), Gabriel Hernandez (Illustrator), Greg Ruth (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
Mostly Ghostly: Who Let the Ghosts Out? R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
Don't Close Your Eyes! (Mostly Ghostly Series) R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
Ghouls Gone Wild R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
Mostly Ghostly: Have You Met My Ghoulfriend? (Mostly Ghostly Series #2) R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
The Taste of Night (Dangerous Girls Series #2) R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $4.98 1 $4.98
Dumb Clucks [Rotten School Series #16] R.l. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $3.98 1 $3.98
Calling All Birdbrains (Rotten School Series #15) R.l. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $3.98 1 $3.98
Let's Get This Party Haunted! R. L. Stine, R.L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
Punk'd and Skunked (Rotten School Series #11) R.l. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Dudes, the School Is Haunted! (Rotten School Series #7) R. L. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $4.98 1 $4.98
Night of the Living Dummy II (Goosebumps Series) R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Teacher from Heck (Rotten School Series #8) R. L. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Got Cake? (Rotten School Series #13) R.l. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Rottenest Angel (Rotten School Series #10) R. L. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Battle of the Dum-Diddys (Rotten School Series #12) R. L. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Night of the Creepy Things (Rotten School Series #14) R. L. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Lose, Team, Lose! (Rotten School Series #4) R. L. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $3.98 1 $3.98
The Great Smelling Bee (Rotten School Series #2) R. L. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $3.98 1 $3.98
Good, the Bad and the Very Slimy (Rotten School Series #3) R. L. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
The Heinie Prize (Rotten School Series #6) R. L. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $4.98 1 $4.98
Shake, Rattle, and Hurl! (Rotten School Series #5) R. L. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $3.98 1 $3.98
Party Poopers (Rotten School Series #9) R. L. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $4.98 1 $4.98
Big Blueberry Barf-Off! (Rotten School Series #1) R. L. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
30 Tales to Give You Goosebumps R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
Night of the Living Dummy Collection (Goosebumps Series) R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
Goosebumps: Monster Blood Collection R. L. Stine • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15

Materials cost

$397.88

Vendor shipping charges

 $39.79

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$465.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$102.07

Total project goal

$567.07

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $567.07

25 Donors

-$537.35

Donations toward project cost

-$465.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$72.35

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$29.72

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