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Ms. Lucky from Wailuku HI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

The Power of Books

Help me give my students high quality books on topics they will love.

  • $1,065 goal

This project expired on January 31, 2023.

This project expired on January 31, 2023.

My Project

About once a week, my students get to choose any book from my modest classroom collection of books to read for 25 minutes of the class period and then write a response.

With your support, my high school students can discover (or rediscover) the joy of reading!

Thank you for bringing more books into my classroom that my students can dive into.

Already this year I have received positive feedback from multiple students about their reading experiences in my classroom.

Here's one student's feedback:

It was challenging to read this book without skipping through pages since I’m usually on my phone most of the time, not wanting to read an actual book but rather reading my text messages, but the book was really enjoyable.

From another student:

I genuinely find this book fascinating which is weird to think about and say because I don’t enjoy reading at all.

Another student wrote:

As I kept on reading the text, I got into it more, I wanted to learn more about the skills that the author was giving out. Just by my started to want to read more of the book, it sort of surprised me because I am not a person that likes to read books.

I'm excited to buy even more books for my students with your generous support.

Ms. Lucky
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1) • Amazon Business $21.99 1 $21.99
SAS Survival Handbook, Third Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere • Amazon Business $21.59 1 $21.59
They Called Us Enemy • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
Copper Creek BK2030SS-2 Ball Door Knob, Privacy Function, 2 Pack, Satin Stainless • Amazon Business $18.92 1 $18.92
Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World • Amazon Business $18.69 1 $18.69
1984: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $18.49 1 $18.49
A Different Mirror for Young People A History of Multicultural America • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States for Young People • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
The Crow: Special Edition • Amazon Business $17.49 1 $17.49
The Gifted Teen Survival Guide: Smart, Sharp, and Ready for (Almost) Anything • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Displacement • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Parable of the Sower: A Novel • Amazon Business $15.58 1 $15.58
Great Circle: A novel • Amazon Business $15.46 1 $15.46
American Born Chinese • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Expert Advice for Extreme Situations (Survival Handbook, Wilderness Survival Guide, Funny Books) • Amazon Business $14.69 1 $14.69
Graceling Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $14.23 1 $14.23
The Conference of the Birds ( Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children 5) • Amazon Business $14.04 1 $14.04
Fledgling • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Believe Me: A Novel • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present (The Path to Calm) • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
The Four Winds: A Novel • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
Parable of the Sower:  A Graphic Novel Adaptation: A Graphic Novel Adaptation • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Call Us What We Carry: Poems • Amazon Business $13.58 1 $13.58
White Bird: A Wonder Story (A Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
The Odyssey • Amazon Business $13.39 1 $13.39
Fable: A Novel (Fable, 1) • Amazon Business $13.36 1 $13.36
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Kindred • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Crazy Food Truck, Vol. 1 (1) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
The Desolations of Devil's Acre (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children) • Amazon Business $12.82 1 $12.82
You Have a Match: A Novel • Amazon Business $12.80 1 $12.80
A Long Way Down: A Literary Thriller (Ryan DeMarco Mystery, 3) • Amazon Business $12.61 1 $12.61
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow • Amazon Business $12.61 1 $12.61
Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival • Amazon Business $11.91 1 $11.91
Rooster Fighter, Vol. 1 (1) • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
On Juneteenth • Amazon Business $11.19 1 $11.19
The Light in Hidden Places • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Furia • Amazon Business $10.95 1 $10.95
The Girl from the Sea: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children • Amazon Business $10.41 1 $10.41
It Ends with Us: A Novel (1) • Amazon Business $10.26 1 $10.26
Furia • Amazon Business $10.23 1 $10.23
You Should See Me in a Crown • Amazon Business $10.06 1 $10.06
Brown Girl Dreaming • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Harbor Me • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
An Invisible Thread: A Young Readers' Edition • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
The Bridge Home • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Every Summer After • Amazon Business $10.00 1 $10.00
A Long Walk to Water • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Sakamoto Days, Vol. 3 (3) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Some Girls Do • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Heavy: An American Memoir • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
People We Meet on Vacation • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
Survival Hacks: Over 200 Ways to Use Everyday Items for Wilderness Survival • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
Everything Inside: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) • Amazon Business $9.74 1 $9.74
Reminders of Him: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.57 1 $9.57
Amal Unbound • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $9.00 1 $9.00
Ghost Boys • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $9.00 1 $9.00
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $8.69 1 $8.69
CableCreation Gold Plated 3.5mm 1/8" Male Stereo to 6.35mm 1/4" Male Stereo Audio Cable, 2 Meters/Black • Amazon Business $8.59 1 $8.59
The Stars Beneath Our Feet • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $8.00 1 $8.00
One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow: A Novel • Amazon Business $7.91 1 $7.91
A Full Interpretation of Klara and the Sun: The first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (Loving Kazuo Ishiguro) • Amazon Business $6.89 1 $6.89
6.35mm 1/4" to 3.5mm 1/8" Male TRS Stereo Audio Cable with Alloy Housing and Nylon Braid for Smartphone, PC, Home Theater, Amplifier and Mixing Console, 3.3Ft • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Loosed Hearts • Amazon Business $2.23 1 $2.23

Materials cost

$822.75

Vendor shipping charges

$10.27

Sales tax

$29.78

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.34

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$905.14

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$159.73

Total project goal

$1,064.87

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