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Ms. DePriest from Palmetto, FL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Stocking Abandoned Library

Help me give my students a selection of new, relevant, compelling books in their previously-abandoned school library.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. DePriest's classroom raised $497

This project is fully funded

My Students

EXUBERANT! This is a great word to describe my 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students. I am a middle school Media Specialist (old-school librarian). My Title 1 school is about 53% Black, 40% Hispanic, 3% Mixed-Race.

100% are labelled Economically Disadvantaged and receive free breakfast and lunch at school.

Some of my students were avid readers in elementary school, but their affection for books has been sucked out of them by assigned novels and forced testing on snippets of literature on a computer. Others are realizing books can be as riveting as movies, and in fact some of the movies they love are based on books.

All are having their eyes opened to the fact that there is a book for everyone out there- it's just a matter of trying a bunch until you find yours. Once found, that will lead you to others you will like, and trying new genres will push back those boundaries even more.

My Project

Help me start the year with a display of newer, relevant books for my middle schoolers so they realize the library isn't a dusty, old place to avoid!

I have inherited a Title 1 middle-school library that has not been updated with materials or staffed by a librarian in over three years.

Many of my students are minorities. Creating and encouraging literacy and reading for pleasure increases educational gains and earning potential, not to mention the enjoyment of life and psychic richness. Help me do that for my students! Thank you.

Ms. DePriest Lincoln Memorial Middle School Grades 6-8

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.

Palmetto, FL View local requests

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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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) • MahoganyBooks $44.99 1 $44.99
Jason Reynolds & Track Series Paperback Collection • MahoganyBooks $28.79 1 $28.79
Brown Girl Dreaming • MahoganyBooks $9.89 2 $19.78
March: Book Three • MahoganyBooks $17.99 1 $17.99
Blackout • MahoganyBooks $17.99 1 $17.99
Punching the Air • MahoganyBooks $17.99 1 $17.99
March: Book Two • MahoganyBooks $17.96 1 $17.96
Dear Justyce • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
The Gilded Ones (Deathless #1) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
The Hate U Give • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Kingston and the Magician's Lost and Found • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Clean Getaway • MahoganyBooks $15.29 1 $15.29
Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny • MahoganyBooks $14.40 1 $14.40
Class Act • MahoganyBooks $11.69 1 $11.69
All American Boys • MahoganyBooks $10.79 1 $10.79
Long Way Down • MahoganyBooks $10.79 1 $10.79
Dear Martin • MahoganyBooks $8.99 1 $8.99
Pet • MahoganyBooks $8.99 1 $8.99
Rebound (The Crossover Series) • MahoganyBooks $8.99 1 $8.99
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Concrete Kids • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
X: A Novel • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Good Kind of Trouble, A • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19

Materials cost

$379.52

Vendor shipping charges

 $7.12

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.69

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$422.33

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.53

Total project goal

$496.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $496.86

7 Donors

-$496.51

Donations toward project cost

-$422.33

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.18

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.35

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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