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Ms. Rolapp from Los Angeles CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Strong Readers Need Strong Books!

My students need 27 high-interest novels, including "Impulse", "Tears of a Tiger" and "Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two".

  • $321 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

I teach English to 8th grade students in a highly-urban charter school. Our students strive to become scholars, activists, and creators in all of their endeavors. If this proposal is fulfilled, they will be able to see how all three of these traits can be utilized to have assess to books they so deeply desire. Currently, our school is facing the harsh realities of budget cuts. As such, we are unable to create a library with age-appropriate books for our students. For the past month, my future students (current seventh graders) have researched different genres and specific novels that they would like to read. They came in during lunch and after school to jump on-line and research different authors, genres, and series. Together, we compiled a list of novels that we are excited to have donated to our classroom! With your donation, each of my students will enter into eighth grade in the fall with a NEW novel that they have directly expressed interest in. Please help this dream of theirs become a reality!

Ms. Rolapp
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dreamland Sarah Dessen • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Fever 1793 Laurie Halse Anderson, Lori Earley • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison, Ralph Ellison (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $11.96 1 $11.96
Thirteen Reasons Why Jay Asher • Barnes and Noble $11.04 1 $11.04
The Truth about Forever Sarah Dessen • Barnes and Noble $3.98 1 $3.98
The Book Thief Markus Zusak • Barnes and Noble $9.59 1 $9.59
First Part Last Angela Johnson • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Buried Onions Gary Soto • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
Peter Kate Walker • Barnes and Noble $5.35 1 $5.35
Crossing the Wire Will Hobbs • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Keeper Mal Peet • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two Joseph Bruchac • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
You Don't Know Me David Klass • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Deadline Chris Crutcher • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Peak Roland Smith • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
Tears of a Tiger Sharon M. Draper • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas John Boyne • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Glass Ellen Hopkins • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Tricks Ellen Hopkins • Barnes and Noble $12.34 1 $12.34
Identical Ellen Hopkins • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Impulse Ellen Hopkins • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Emily (Louder Than Words Series) Emily Smucker • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
Chelsey (Louder Than Words Series) Chelsey Shannon, Deborah Reber (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
Marni (Louder Than Words Series) Marni Bates • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
Sold Patricia Mccormick • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Before I Die Jenny Downham • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99

Materials cost

$214.05

Vendor shipping charges

$21.41

Sales tax

$15.52

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.21

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$263.21

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$57.78

Total project goal

$320.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$320.99

1 Donor

-$320.99

Donations toward project cost

-$263.21

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$57.78

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$0.00

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