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Ms. Liles from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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We Need Books Kids Want to Read!

The cost of this proposal is $717, including shipping and <a target="new" href="http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm" onclick="g_openWindow('http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm', 300, 800, 'fulfillwindow');return false;">fulfillment</a>.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Liles's classroom raised $735

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.

Last year, I taught three sections of sixth grade literacy in an under resourced school in Brooklyn, NY. Throughout the year, I struggled to find enough copies of quality independent reading books to support my 70 readers and writers. I was constantly desperate to find books that would interest my students and were appropriate for their various reading levels. This is difficult, but is particularly difficult during middle school. The students refuse to read "baby" books, yet certain students need to choose books on a lower level. This year, I will be "looping," teacher-speak for moving up with a group of students to the next grade. These students are some of the most intelligent, driven kids I have ever encountered. They love to read, and they know what they like. I fear that my meager selection of books will not satisfy their appetite for reading. I can hear it now: "But Miss, I read that last year!" I have a small library of about 500 books for my students to choose from. While I have plenty of books appropriate for sixth graders, my seventh grade class will have little to choose from. I am desperate to update my library with new, interesting, seventh grade appropriate reading material. I'm also requesting books to help my students prepare for the New York City Specialized High School Exam. I'd like my students to have an idea of how hard they will have to work over the next two years to get accepted to a great high school. Esspecially driven students will have a chance to borrow these books to work with after school. I want nothing more than to supply my students with the books they want to read. The books that I am requesting will be invaluable tools that will truly benefit my students. Please help me to help my students to become better readers.

Ms. Liles MS 88 Peter Rouget Grades 6-8

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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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Rebel Angels Libba Bray • Barnes and Noble $21.55 2 $43.10
Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevin • Barnes and Noble $19.75 2 $39.50
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights Russell Freedman • Barnes and Noble $16.20 1 $16.20
Fever 1793 Laurie Halse Anderson, Lori Earley (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $16.19 3 $48.57
The House of the Scorpion Nancy Farmer, Russell Gordon • Barnes and Noble $16.15 2 $32.30
So B. It Sarah Weeks • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
A Maze Me: Poems for Girls Naomi Shihab Nye, Terre Maher (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies Sonya Sones • Barnes and Noble $15.25 1 $15.25
Great and Terrible Beauty Libba Bray • Barnes and Noble $15.25 1 $15.25
Full Tilt Neal Shusterman • Barnes and Noble $15.25 1 $15.25
Twilight Stephenie Meyer • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Never Mind!: A Twin Novel Avi, Rachel Vail • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Bird Angela Johnson • Barnes and Noble $14.39 2 $28.78
The Schwa Was Here Neal Shusterman • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Goddess of Yesterday Caroline B. Cooney • Barnes and Noble $14.35 1 $14.35
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 Jim Murphy • Barnes and Noble $13.60 1 $13.60
Criss Cross Lynne Rae Perkins • Barnes and Noble $13.59 1 $13.59
The Book Thief Markus Zusak • Barnes and Noble $13.56 1 $13.56
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Gary Schmidt • Barnes and Noble $13.50 1 $13.50
Looking for Alaska John Green • Barnes and Noble $12.79 2 $25.58
Wham! It's a Poetry Jam: Discovering Performance Poetry Sara Holbrook, Foreword by Jane Yolen • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things Carolyn Mackler • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Breathing Underwater Alex Flinn • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
The Secret Hour Scott Westerfeld • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
What My Mother Doesn't Know Sonya Sones • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Stop Pretending: What Happened when My Big Sister Went Crazy Sonya Sones • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East Naomi Shihab Nye • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Thief Megan Whalen Turner • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Millions Frank Cottrell Boyce • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Things Not Seen Andrew Clements • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind Suzanne Fisher Staples • Barnes and Noble $6.29 2 $12.58
Haveli Suzanne Fisher Staples • Barnes and Noble $5.85 1 $5.85
Give a Boy a Gun Todd Strasser • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Raptor Paul Zindel • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49

Materials cost

$518.70

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

3rd party payment processing fee

Fulfillment labor & materials

Total project cost

$602.70

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$132.30

Total project goal

$735.00

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $735.00

2 Donors

-$709.02

Donations toward project cost

-$602.70

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$106.32

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$25.98

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