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Mrs. Laura Lane Richardson from Anchorage AK is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Who Was Books - Best-Selling Series

Help me give my students a best-selling series where they Learn about important people and their contributions to the world.

  • $337 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Project

The Who Was series is a student-friendly non-fiction book that is packed with historical facts on people of interest. It is short and they provide a timeline, a Bibliography and are just over 100 pages in length.

Who Was books are used to study legends, innovators, creators, and trailblazers.

Teachers also use them to teach about heroes, biographies, and explorers. They are condensed, easy to read, and attract both primary and intermediate readers.

When students enter the library for a reference book the Who Was series is the first to get checked out.

Mrs. Laura Lane Richardson
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Who Was? Nonfiction (24 Bk Set) • AKJ Education $114.92 1 $114.92
Who Was Elvis Presley? • AKJ Education $5.10 2 $10.20
Who Was John F. Kennedy? • AKJ Education $4.37 2 $8.74
Quien Fue Louis Armstrong? (Who Was Louis Armstrong?) • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Who Was Queen Elizabeth II? • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Who Is Shaquille O'Neal? • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Who Are Venus and Serena Williams? • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
What Is the Story of Captain Kirk? • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Who Was Nelson Mandela? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
What Is the Super Bowl? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37

Materials cost

$171.02

Vendor shipping charges

 $80.00

Sales tax

 $2.57

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.57

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$286.16

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$50.50

Total project goal

$336.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $336.66

3 Donors

-$303.56

Donations toward project cost

-$273.40

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.16

match offer

-$15.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$12.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$2.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$18.09

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 $0.00

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