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Ms. Cimerman from Laurel, MD is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Turning Pages, Changing Lives

Help me give my students books! My school has a variety of novels for my 5th grade scholars but no nonfiction books. I would like to improve their informational text comprehension next year with these book club books.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Cimerman's classroom raised $557

This project is fully funded

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Why Donate Book Club Books to Our 5th Grade Class?

1.

Fuel a Love for Reading

At this critical age, students are forming lifelong reading habits. Donated books give every child access to stories that spark imagination, empathy, and curiosity. When students read together, it builds excitement and helps even reluctant readers become confident ones.

2. Create Equal Opportunities

Not every student can afford their own copy of a book. Donations ensure that every child has the same chance to participate, follow along, and engage fully—no one feels left out.

3. Build a Classroom Community

Book clubs create shared experiences. Students discuss characters, themes, and ideas. They learn to listen, share opinions, and respectfully disagree. Donated books support these conversations and make our classroom a more inclusive, connected space.

4. Support Literacy Across Subjects

Reading builds vocabulary, comprehension, and critical thinking skills that benefit students not just in English Language Arts, but in science, history, and math too. Donated books help us broaden our curriculum and enrich learning across the board.

5. Make a Lasting Impact

A single donated book can be used year after year by new groups of students. Your gift today supports dozens of young readers for years to come.

Ms. Cimerman Montpelier Elementary School Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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.

Laurel, MD View local requests

More than 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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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Claudette Colvin - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $9.48 7 $66.36
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List (No Series) • Amazon Business $7.42 7 $51.94
The Secret Keepers - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $7.29 7 $51.03
Enola Holmes: The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets (An Enola Holmes Mystery) • Amazon Business $6.99 7 $48.93
Into the Wild • Amazon Business $6.95 7 $48.65
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) • Amazon Business $6.89 7 $48.23
Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert • Amazon Business $6.39 7 $44.73
Out Of The Dust • Amazon Business $5.60 7 $39.20
The Boy on the Wooden Box A Novel Study • Amazon Business $13.00 1 $13.00

Materials cost

$412.07

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$24.72

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.18

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$472.97

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$83.47

Total project goal

$556.44

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$556.44

8 Donors

-$427.91

Donations toward project cost

-$395.01

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.90

match offer

-$91.72

Match offer toward project cost

-$77.96

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.76

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$36.81

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$0.00

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