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Ms. Schaefer from New York, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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We Want Twilight! And More!

My students need single and multiple copies of 26 books as well as a subscription to READ magazine for our classroom library.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Schaefer's classroom raised $570

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Our students are beginning to love to read. As 9th graders, often they aren't interested in reading books but we're trying to teach them. So, we've built in independent reading three times a week in our Humanities class, a combination of English & Social Studies, to help our students nurture their love of reading. Our school is a community school in New York in a high-need area. We have little funding to purchase additional books for our classroom library to keep it up-to-date with interesting reads for our students. Most of our students don't have books at home or the funds to purchase books on their own.

"Twilight. Do you have it?" Our students keep asking for Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn as well as other current, interesting books. They talk amongst each other about how much they love the books and how "You have to read them!" Many of our students beg us to borrow the books to take home, try to sneak in reading in other classes, and overall are beginning to blossom into great readers. However, we can't afford to buy these books and neither can our students.

In order to help our students to keep reading, we need more books. Many of the books in our classroom library are not interesting to our students as they cannot connect to their own lives. Our students wrote a list of all the books they want for our library, so these requests are from them. They beg us to get more books and with these new books, they will continue to develop good reading skills and increased literacy.

Your help with ensure that our students are able to continue to develop a love of reading and have an opportunity to read the latest, most interesting books. They are beginning to love reading and with your help, they can keep reading and understand how important it is to develop good reading skills and read for fun.

Ms. Schaefer University Neighborhood High School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than three‑quarters 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

50 students impacted 6donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Go Ask Alice Anonymous • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
It Happened to Nancy: A True Story from the Diary of a Teenager Beatrice Sparks, Foreword by Dathan Sheranian • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Smack Melvin Burgess • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
READ (For Orders of only 1 Subscription) • Weekly Reader $24.15 1 $24.15
Ordinary Ghosts Eireann Corrigan • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Kendra Coe Booth • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
Twilight Stephenie Meyer • Barnes and Noble $7.19 4 $28.76
New Moon Stephenie Meyer • Barnes and Noble $9.89 4 $39.56
Bec (The Demonata Series #4) Darren Shan • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Tyrell Coe Booth • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Eclipse Stephenie Meyer • Barnes and Noble $13.99 4 $55.96
Breaking Dawn Stephenie Meyer • Barnes and Noble $16.09 4 $64.36
Homeboyz Alan Lawrence Sitomer • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Forever... Judy Blume • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Lord Loss (The Demonata Series #1) Darren Shan • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Demon Thief (The Demonata Series #2) Darren Shan • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Slawter (The Demonata Series #3) Darren Shan • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Blood Beast (The Demonata Series #5) Darren Shan • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Give a Boy a Gun Todd Strasser • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Boot Camp Todd Strasser • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Crank Ellen Hopkins • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Glass Ellen Hopkins • Barnes and Noble $12.59 1 $12.59
Playing in Traffic Gail Giles • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Impulse Ellen Hopkins • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Burned Ellen Hopkins • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Cut Patricia McCormick • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Identical Ellen Hopkins • Barnes and Noble $12.59 1 $12.59

Materials cost

$399.77

Vendor shipping charges

 $39.98

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.99

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$467.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$102.51

Total project goal

$569.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $569.51

5 Donors

-$274.41

Donations toward project cost

-$233.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.16

match offer

-$275.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$225.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$49.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.04

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 $0.00

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