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Mrs. Guthrie from Portland OR is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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We Love the Smell of New Books!

Help me give my students an updated classroom library with high-interest books to share!

  • $617 goal

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My Project

Every year, great new books come onto the scene for children and adults. It is important to me as a teacher that my students have as many up-to-date, high-interest, relevant titles available in the classroom as possible.

It is time to refresh the classroom library with new titles that are culturally responsive, teach about feelings, mistakes, and perseverance, or are next year's OBOB titles.

Due to COVID, I didn't have the need to "refresh" the classroom library shelves by sending old books home with students and adding new titles. It is a well overdue task. Now is the perfect time to send the old home to enrich student bookshelves, but that also means bringing in new and fresh titles for students to use here at school.

Mrs. Guthrie
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Questioneers Picture Book Collection • Amazon Business $49.49 1 $49.49
When Pencil Met the Markers (When Pencil Met Eraser) • Amazon Business $18.93 2 $37.86
A Little SPOT of Feelings 8 Book Box Set (Book 25-32: Empathy, Frustration, Calm, Belonging, Worry, Boredom, Flexible Thinking, & Feelings Detective) • Amazon Business $37.64 1 $37.64
Snapdragon • Amazon Business $21.99 1 $21.99
When Glitter Met Glue (When Pencil Met Eraser) • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Spark • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
From the Desk of Zoe Washington • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Sticks • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Scribble Stones • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Legend of the Star Runner: A Timmi Tobbson Adventure Book for Boys and Girls (Solve-Them-Yourself Mysteries for Kids aged 8-12) • Amazon Business $16.09 1 $16.09
The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart • Amazon Business $15.27 1 $15.27
Letters from Cuba • Amazon Business $14.62 1 $14.62
When Pencil Met Eraser • Amazon Business $13.74 1 $13.74
The Whole World Inside Nan's Soup • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Aaron Slater, Illustrator (The Questioneers) • Amazon Business $13.10 1 $13.10
Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Perfect • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
Malala's Magic Pencil • Amazon Business $12.72 1 $12.72
A Wish in the Dark • Amazon Business $12.60 1 $12.60
New Kid • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Mistakes Are How I Learn: An Early Reader Rhyming Story Book for Children to Help with Perseverance and Diligence (Amazing Affirmations) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Measuring Up • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
Shirley and Jamila Save Their Summer (Shirley & Jamila) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Best of Iggy • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Hook's Daughter: The Untold Tale of a Pirate Princess (The Pirate Princess Chronicles) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Best Color of All • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Harbor Me • Amazon Business $9.76 1 $9.76
Ten: A Soccer Story • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Kinda Like Brothers • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Rescue on the Oregon Trail (Ranger in Time #1) (1) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$487.09

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.31

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$524.40

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$92.54

Total project goal

$616.94

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$616.94

3 Donors

-$450.02

Donations toward project cost

-$386.27

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.75

match offer

-$162.51

Match offer toward project cost

-$138.13

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.38

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.42

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$0.00

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