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Ms. Hawkins from Anchorage, AK is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Dream Classroom Library

Help me give my students their dream library! From the classics to contemporary works!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Hawkins's classroom raised $2,136

This project is fully funded

My Project

I am excited to embark on a classroom library project that aims to enhance the learning experience of my unique group of students. Each child brings a distinct set of interests and learning styles to the classroom, making it essential to create a library that caters to this diversity. The requested items for this project include a spectrum of books, encompassing both classics and contemporary works, spanning various genres, reading levels, and cultural perspectives. This intentional selection aims to make a significant impact on their learning experiences. These resources extend beyond fostering independent reading; they also serve as invaluable supplements to our curriculum, enabling students to delve into subjects more profoundly and reinforcing the concepts introduced in class.

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If you see a book on the donation list that has had an impact on your life, please consider donating so one of my students can also share the experience.

The primary goal of this project is to cultivate a love for reading among my students and foster a positive learning environment. I believe that a well-curated classroom library can ignite a passion for literature, improve literacy skills, and contribute to overall academic success. By providing books that resonate with their individual interests and backgrounds, I aim to empower my students to become lifelong learners with a deep appreciation for the written word. This project is a testament to the belief that every student deserves access to a rich and diverse array of reading materials, tailored to their unique needs and preferences. What makes my students special is their creativity and eagerness to explore the world around them. Through this classroom library initiative, I hope to nurture these qualities and inspire a lifelong love for learning in each and every one of them.

Ms. Hawkins South High School Grades 9-12 Anchorage, AK View local requests

Half of 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
Hemingway Boxed Set • Amazon Business $31.60 1 $31.60
The King Must Die; The Bull from the Sea: Introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) • Amazon Business $28.49 1 $28.49
Toni Morrison Box Set: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved • Amazon Business $27.99 1 $27.99
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays (Everyman's Library) • Amazon Business $24.99 1 $24.99
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Clothbound Classics) • Amazon Business $24.00 1 $24.00
Moll Flanders: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions) • Amazon Business $22.99 1 $22.99
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics) • Amazon Business $18.21 1 $18.21
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel • Amazon Business $18.00 1 $18.00
Arrow of God • Amazon Business $17.00 1 $17.00
A Gesture Life: A Novel • Amazon Business $17.00 1 $17.00
The Other Americans: A Novel • Amazon Business $17.00 1 $17.00
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories (Penguin Clothbound Classics) • Amazon Business $16.89 1 $16.89
Selected Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $16.40 1 $16.40
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions) • Amazon Business $16.21 1 $16.21
The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Going After Cacciato: A Novel • Amazon Business $15.42 1 $15.42
The Marrow Thieves • Amazon Business $14.97 1 $14.97
Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel • Amazon Business $14.89 1 $14.89
The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel • Amazon Business $14.62 1 $14.62
Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
Giovanni's Room • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
Another Country • Amazon Business $14.28 1 $14.28
Let Us Descend: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club 2023) • Amazon Business $14.00 1 $14.00
Obasan • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
V for Vendetta • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
The God of Small Things: A Novel • Amazon Business $13.87 1 $13.87
No Exit and Three Other Plays • Amazon Business $13.85 1 $13.85
The Things They Carried • Amazon Business $13.77 1 $13.77
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
Orlando: A Biography • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Cities of the Plain: Border Trilogy (3) • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, Book 2) • Amazon Business $13.19 1 $13.19
Black Boy [Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition] • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
Light in August • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel • Amazon Business $12.73 1 $12.73
The Night Watchman: Pulitzer Prize Winning Fiction • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
Half of a Yellow Sun • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
Signs Preceding the End of the World • Amazon Business $12.48 1 $12.48
White Teeth: A Novel • Amazon Business $12.46 1 $12.46
The Remains of the Day: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature • Amazon Business $12.40 1 $12.40
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale • AKJ Education $12.37 1 $12.37
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History • AKJ Education $12.37 1 $12.37
The Grapes of Wrath • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
Native Son (Perennial Classics) • Amazon Business $12.28 1 $12.28
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) • Amazon Business $12.19 1 $12.19
The English Patient: Man Booker Prize Winner • Amazon Business $12.19 1 $12.19
The Water Dancer: A Novel • Amazon Business $12.13 1 $12.13
The White Tiger: A Novel • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
The Color Purple: A Novel • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Seven Guitars • Amazon Business $11.59 1 $11.59
Mrs. Dalloway: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) • Amazon Business $11.51 1 $11.51
Native Speaker • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
Rubyfruit Jungle: A Novel • Amazon Business $11.28 1 $11.28
Home Fire: A Novel • Amazon Business $11.20 1 $11.20
Wide Sargasso Sea • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Stranger • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Joe Turner's Come and Gone • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1) • Amazon Business $10.93 1 $10.93
The Piano Lesson • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
The Namesake: A Novel • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
Homegoing • Amazon Business $10.87 1 $10.87
A Room of One's Own • Amazon Business $10.70 1 $10.70
House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed]: A Novel (P.S.) • Amazon Business $10.69 1 $10.69
The Blind Assassin: A Novel, Cover may vary • Amazon Business $10.59 1 $10.59
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Nervous Conditions: A Novel (Nervous Conditions Series) • Amazon Business $10.19 1 $10.19
Alias Grace: A Novel • Amazon Business $10.13 1 $10.13
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner) • Amazon Business $10.06 1 $10.06
The Pilgrim´s Progress | Complete And Unabridged Edition | Parts 1 & 2 • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Good Earth • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Grendel • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Republic (Translated by Benjamin Jowett with an Introduction by Alexander Kerr) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Cry, the Beloved Country • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Oryx and Crake (The MaddAddam Trilogy) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Reservation Blues • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Passing (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Purple Hibiscus: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Ceremony: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Madame Bovary (Signet Classics) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Slaughterhouse-Five (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) • Amazon Business $9.87 1 $9.87
One Amazing Thing • Amazon Business $9.85 1 $9.85
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Revised by the Author • Amazon Business $9.69 1 $9.69
The Glass Menagerie • Amazon Business $9.69 1 $9.69
The House of the Spirits: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.65 1 $9.65
A Separate Peace • Amazon Business $9.39 1 $9.39
Emma (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $9.00 1 $9.00
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Vintage International) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Fire on the Mountain (Aladdin Picture Books) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Bless Me, Ultima • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Little Women (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Twelve Angry Men (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Of Mice and Men • Amazon Business $8.91 1 $8.91
There There • Amazon Business $8.89 1 $8.89
Hiroshima • Amazon Business $8.89 1 $8.89
Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
The Once and Future King • Amazon Business $8.50 1 $8.50
A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club) • Amazon Business $8.39 1 $8.39
The Iliad • Amazon Business $8.24 1 $8.24
Daisy Miller (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $8.00 1 $8.00
The Prince (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Death Of A Salesman, Certain Private Conversations In Two Acts And A Requiem • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Six Great Modern Plays • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
All Creatures Great and Small • Amazon Business $7.97 1 $7.97
Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics) • Amazon Business $7.93 1 $7.93
My Antonia • Amazon Business $7.90 1 $7.90
Wise Blood: A Novel (FSG Classics) • Amazon Business $7.69 1 $7.69
Exit West: A Novel • Amazon Business $7.61 1 $7.61
The Testaments: A Novel (The Handmaid's Tale) • Amazon Business $7.46 1 $7.46
The Scarlet Letter • Amazon Business $7.45 1 $7.45
Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $7.29 1 $7.29
The Road (Oprah's Book Club) • Amazon Business $7.15 1 $7.15
Ulysses (Wordsworth Classics) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
A Thousand Splendid Suns • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
David Copperfield (Wordsworth Classics) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Age of Innocence • Amazon Business $6.97 1 $6.97
The Fountainhead • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
All Quiet on the Western Front • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Signet Classics) • Amazon Business $6.49 1 $6.49
Candide • Amazon Business $6.25 1 $6.25
The Invisible Man (Signet Classics) • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95
Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics) • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics) • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95
Sons and Lovers (Bantam Classics) • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95
Paradise Lost • Amazon Business $5.89 1 $5.89
Pygmalion (Enriched Classics) • Amazon Business $5.83 1 $5.83
Walden and Civil Disobedience • Amazon Business $5.59 1 $5.59
Pride and Prejudice • Amazon Business $5.59 1 $5.59
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $4.46 1 $4.46
The Jungle • AKJ Education $4.34 1 $4.34
A Doll's House (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays) • Amazon Business $4.00 1 $4.00
The Importance of Being Earnest (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays) • Amazon Business $3.00 1 $3.00

Materials cost

$1,646.15

Vendor shipping charges

 $90.00

Sales tax

 $24.69

3rd party payment processing fee

$24.69

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,815.53

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$320.39

Total project goal

$2,135.92

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $2,135.92

2 Donors

-$2,118.27

Donations toward project cost

-$1,815.53

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$302.74

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.65

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