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Ms. Griesinger from Flint, MI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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We Need New Books to Grow Our Brains!

Help me give my students brand new books for our reading library because kids who have access to books are kids who love to read!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Griesinger's classroom raised $556

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are amazing kids who face many challenges both at home and at school. My students all have various disabilities, but they don't let their disabilities hold them back.

All of my students are unique, but one thing is the same in each of them: they love to learn!

My students come from a variety of backgrounds and face many challenges before even entering our school. We work together every day to overcome those challenges and reach new heights. I work with about 75 special education students every week, reaching kids with various disabilities. My students love to move, explore and play.

My Project

Kids fall in love with reading when they fall in love with a book. However, in our community, books can be hard to come by. My students come from families that, due to a variety of circumstances, struggle to provide food, housing and clothing for their kids. This means that whatever money they come by often goes to basic needs and that there isn't often money left over for things like books.

When my students have access to books of their own, they can be seen reading at lunch in the lunchroom, on the swings at recess and everywhere else.

We need brand new books for our library, where students can go and pick out a brand new book of their own. My students love, love, love, to go to our book store, and pick out a book of their very own. These books help my students fall in love with learning, which in turn, brings books into our community. My students love to tell me how they read their new book to their little brother or sister, or how their mom read it aloud to them before bed the night before. Books give children the opportunity to travel and experience new things, without leaving home. Every student deserves to experience the magic of a book. Help my students experience this magic for themselves!

Ms. Griesinger Eisenhower 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

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all 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
Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile • Amazon Business $12.96 1 $12.96
Watch Us Rise • Amazon Business $12.91 1 $12.91
Even Superheroes Have Bad Days • Amazon Business $12.58 1 $12.58
Hacked (Red Rhino Nonfiction) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Fault Lines (Red Rhino Nonfiction) (Red Rhino Books Nonfiction) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Monsters of the Deep (Red Rhino Nonfiction) (Red Rhino Books: Nonfiction) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Virtual Reality (Red Rhino Nonfiction) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Drones (Red Rhino Nonfiction) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Great Spies of the World (Red Rhino Books Nonfiction) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Tuskegee Airmen (Red Rhino Books Nonfiction) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Little Robot • Amazon Business $9.88 1 $9.88
How to Take the Grrrr Out of Anger (Laugh & Learn®) • Amazon Business $9.57 1 $9.57
The Story of Titanic for Children: Astonishing Little-Known Facts and Details About the Most Famous Ship in the World • Amazon Business $9.06 1 $9.06
Amal Unbound • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Walk Two Moons • Amazon Business $8.87 1 $8.87
The Mighty Miss Malone • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Clan Castles Upgrade Pack (Red Rhino) (Red Rhino Books) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Flyer (Red Rhino) (Red Rhino Books) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Sky Watchers (Red Rhino Books) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
The Magic Stone (Red Rhino) (Red Rhino Books) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Monsters on Land (Red Rhino Nonfiction) (Red Rhino Books Nonfiction) • Amazon Business $7.49 1 $7.49
Piecing Me Together • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
The Only Road • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
Becoming Naomi León (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Absolutely Normal Chaos (Walk Two Moons) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Glory Be • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute: Lunch Lady #1 • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Ruby Holler • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Ban This Book • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
Weird But True 9: Expanded Edition • Amazon Business $6.81 1 $6.81
Weird But True 6: Expanded Edition • Amazon Business $6.81 1 $6.81
Weird But True 10 • Amazon Business $6.81 1 $6.81
Before We Were Free • Amazon Business $6.81 1 $6.81
I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
The Bad Guys in Mission Unpluckable (The Bad Guys #2) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
The Bad Guys in The Furball Strikes Back (The Bad Guys #3) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
The Bad Guys in Superbad (The Bad Guys #8) • Amazon Business $5.08 1 $5.08
The Bad Guys in Alien vs Bad Guys (The Bad Guys #6) • Amazon Business $5.01 1 $5.01
What If You Had An Animal Nose? • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
I Survived: The Shark Attacks of 1916 • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Super Rabbit Boy vs. Super Rabbit Boss!: A Branches Book (Press Start! #4) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Super Rabbit Boy Blasts Off!: A Branches Book (Press Start! #5) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
I Survived the Attacks of September 11th, 2001 (I Survived, Book 6) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
What If You Had Animal Feet? • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 (I Survived #5) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
The Super Side-Quest Test!: A Branches Book (Press Start! #6) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Super Rabbit Racers!: A Branches Book (Press Start! #3) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Fly Guy and the Frankenfly (Fly Guy #13) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
What If You Had Animal Eyes? • Amazon Business $4.57 1 $4.57
What If You Had Animal Ears? • Amazon Business $4.49 1 $4.49
I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 (I Survived #8) • Amazon Business $4.28 1 $4.28
What If You Had T. Rex Teeth? And Other Dinosaur Parts • Amazon Business $4.09 1 $4.09
Katherine Johnson (You Should Meet) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Would Win? Polar Bear vs. Grizzly Bear • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Fly Guy Presents: Sharks (Scholastic Reader, Level 2) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Komodo Dragon vs. King Cobra (Who Would Win?) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
What If You Had Animal Teeth? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
What If You Had Animal Hair? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Hammerhead vs. Bull Shark (Who Would Win?) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Women Who Launched the Computer Age (You Should Meet) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Hi! Fly Guy • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Amazing Sharks! (I Can Read Level 2) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Whale vs. Giant Squid (Who Would Win?) • Amazon Business $3.92 1 $3.92
Who Would Win? Lion vs. Tiger • Amazon Business $3.85 1 $3.85
National Geographic Readers: Sharks! (Science Reader Level 2) • Amazon Business $3.65 1 $3.65
Who Would Win? Tyrannosaurus Rex vs. Velociraptor • Amazon Business $3.19 1 $3.19

Materials cost

$435.98

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.54

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$472.52

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$83.39

Total project goal

$555.91

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $555.91

3 Donors

-$491.27

Donations toward project cost

-$472.52

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$64.64

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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