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Ms. LaBar from Philadelphia PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Shhhhh! I Am Reading!

Help me give my students books to read at home why they are being home schooled.

  • $241 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Black History Month

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 Students

My students attend a Title I school in Pennsylvania, and all receive free or reduced-price lunch and breakfast. They attend a typical, inner-city school. Most face serious obstacles before they even walk through​ the doors in the morning. Our goal is to make our school a safe and loving environment.

Our students come from diverse backgrounds and different countries.

This makes our school pretty special in so many ways. The students all work so hard and are very deserving of this project.

My Project

All my kids want to do recently is read. I started a small classroom library with 30 books and we are easily over 200 now. The kids come in and ask for new books that they want to read. The truth is the more they read the better their vocabulary and comprehension get. That then transfers into all their classes and we see their grades go up. I am watching this happen daily and I’d love to provide them with a few more books to help out. It’s important that they stop seeing reading as work but something that can bring them enjoyment. Now that they are home I would love to give them books.

Ms. LaBar
Grades 6-8

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Vanishing Half: A Novel • Amazon Business $16.20 1 $16.20
Brain Games - Poe Puzzles: More Than 100 Brain Teasers Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe • Amazon Business $8.00 2 $16.00
If It Bleeds • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Tales of the Unexpected • Amazon Business $14.82 1 $14.82
The Hunting Party: A Novel • Amazon Business $13.58 1 $13.58
Disney Manga: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas - Zero's Journey Graphic Novel Book 1 • Amazon Business $13.19 1 $13.19
Her Final Words • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure • Amazon Business $9.00 1 $9.00
All the Stars and Teeth (All the Stars and Teeth Duology (1)) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Beautiful • Amazon Business $8.94 1 $8.94
Little Fires Everywhere (Movie Tie-In): A Novel • Amazon Business $4.19 2 $8.38
Wrong Roads: Scary Stories from Coast to Coast • Amazon Business $8.16 1 $8.16
InvestiGators (InvestiGators (1)) • Amazon Business $8.00 1 $8.00
Crave (Crave (1)) • Amazon Business $7.67 1 $7.67
Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel • Amazon Business $6.49 1 $6.49
Truth and Justice (Sisterhood) • Amazon Business $5.22 1 $5.22

Materials cost

$171.62

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.57

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$204.19

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$36.03

Total project goal

$240.22

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $240.22

3 Donors

-$225.87

Donations toward project cost

-$197.39

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.48

match offer

-$8.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$6.80

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.20

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.35

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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