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Mrs. Miller from Harrisburg, PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Weird But True

Help me give my students books they will love to read and that will help them learn some cool facts too!

  • $544 goal

This project expired on August 22, 2025.

This project expired on August 22, 2025.

My Project

Our students are so excited to have Book Vending Machine. They earn incentive tokens for their good academics, positive attitude, outstanding behavior, and being great school citizens. We are excited to fill this vending machine with books that the students will love and enjoy!

What better reward than a book to help instill a love of reading.

Your donation will help us fill the vending machine with books our students will love! The students will be able to choose their book and watch the magic of a vending machine put the book right in their hands! They will get to learn fun and interesting facts about things they never knew about.

Mrs. Miller Rutherford Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

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

450 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Weird But True! Food: 300 Bite-Size Facts About Incredible Edibles • Amazon Business $7.94 12 $95.28
Weird But True! New York City • Amazon Business $7.64 12 $91.68
Weird But True 8: Expanded Edition • Amazon Business $7.16 12 $85.92
Weird But True! Gross: 300 Slimy, Sticky, and Smelly Facts • Amazon Business $6.71 12 $80.52
Weird But True! Sharks • Amazon Business $6.00 12 $72.00

Materials cost

$425.40

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.38

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$461.78

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$81.49

Total project goal

$543.27

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