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Wanted: High-Interest Books For Highly-Interested Students!

My students need 46 carefully-chosen, high-interest, multi-genre books so that their classroom library can blossom and be used to its utmost potential.

$913 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My classroom is one full of voracious, intelligent students from 9th grade to 12th grade. However, I teach a scripted curriculum that often does not allow for creative freedom and exposure to new disciplines. As a result, reading has lost an important element to my students: passion. My mission this year in all my projects is to reignite curiosity, wonder, and excitement in my students' hearts when they are confronted with the prospect of improving and extending their literacy.

As it currently stands, our classroom library is meager, with outdated books and texts that have reading levels a bit too high for where my students are at right now. Many of my students express interest in genres like supernatural fiction, mysteries, drama, and romance, and without any of those categories on my shelves (and with books that look as if they belong in another era altogether) Ms. G's library is, to quote my students, "stupid."

I want to fill my shelves with titles and authors who understand my kids and the lives they live, and the fantasies they want to indulge when they crack open a book. By exposing my students to a mix of current and established YA literature, we are ensuring three things: one, that my students will receive the same formative reading histories as their suburban peers; two, that all my students will find something for themselves, regardless of interest or reading level; and three, that reading will become fun again.

I envision a class culture where Free-Reading Fridays are an incentive instead of a consequence. I envision a creative, intelligent, well-read group of students who are hungry for more knowledge and who see no limits to where the world can take them, all due to the things they have read in their favorite books. I envision this future, but it cannot happen without help. I am asking for any little bit that you can contribute towards creating a haven of reading space for the young adults in my classroom--because in many ways, that haven can--and will--change their lives.

Ms. G.

Grades 9-12

Ben Franklin High School

Philadelphia, PA

Pennsylvania

Nearly all students from low‑income households

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This project will reach 60 students.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total

P. S. I Loathe You • AKJ Books $8.71 1 $8.71

Favorite Authors - Cynthia Voigt • AKJ Books $19.16 1 $19.16

The Easy Way • AKJ Books $3.44 1 $3.44

Teacher's Funeral • AKJ Books $6.10 1 $6.10

One Date Too Many • AKJ Books $3.44 1 $3.44

Best Friend • AKJ Books $5.22 1 $5.22

Pretties • AKJ Books $7.84 1 $7.84

Uglies • AKJ Books $7.84 1 $7.84

Sword Of Shannara, • AKJ Books $6.97 1 $6.97

Jack • AKJ Books $12.16 1 $12.16

Luna • AKJ Books $6.97 1 $6.97

I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This • AKJ Books $5.22 1 $5.22

Teaching with Fire • AKJ Books $14.78 1 $14.78

Blood is Thicker • AKJ Books $3.48 1 $3.48

A Matter of Trust • AKJ Books $4.32 1 $4.32

The Body of Christopher Creed • AKJ Books $6.06 1 $6.06

Dark Wraith Of Shannara • AKJ Books $12.16 1 $12.16

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy • AKJ Books $6.97 1 $6.97

Eragon • AKJ Books $11.33 1 $11.33

Alchemist, The • AKJ Books $12.16 1 $12.16

Wuthering Heights • AKJ Books $4.32 1 $4.32

Catcher in the Rye • AKJ Books $6.10 1 $6.10

Things They Carried • AKJ Books $13.04 1 $13.04

Like Water for Chocolate : A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies • AKJ Books $12.16 1 $12.16

The Book Thief • AKJ Books $10.46 1 $10.46

Westing Game • AKJ Books $8.71 1 $8.71

Nothing but the Truth : A Documentary Novel • AKJ Books $6.10 1 $6.10

Hobbit : The Enchanting Prelude to the Lord of the Rings • AKJ Books $6.97 1 $6.97

Complete Maus, • AKJ Books $30.52 1 $30.52

Persepolis 2 • AKJ Books $11.29 1 $11.29

Persepolis • AKJ Books $16.52 1 $16.52

Bronx Masquerade • AKJ Books $6.10 1 $6.10

Favorite Authors - Walter Dean Myers • AKJ Books $81.00 1 $81.00

Ender's Shadow • AKJ Books $6.97 1 $6.97

Born Confused • AKJ Books $8.71 1 $8.71

Favorite Authors - Philip Pullman • AKJ Books $24.84 1 $24.84

Speak • AKJ Books $8.72 1 $8.72

House on Mango Street, The • AKJ Books $9.55 1 $9.55

Ender's Game • AKJ Books $6.10 1 $6.10

Giver, The • AKJ Books $6.10 1 $6.10

Beauty • AKJ Books $5.22 1 $5.22

Favorite Authors - Sharon Draper • AKJ Books $46.16 1 $46.16

Twilight • AKJ Books $17.43 1 $17.43

Favorite Series - Harry Potter • AKJ Books $93.24 1 $93.24

Betrayal • AKJ Books $6.97 1 $6.97

A Series of Unfortunate Events The Wide Window; The Miserable Mill • AKJ Books $11.33 1 $11.33

Materials cost			$628.96
Vendor shipping charges			$62.90
Sales tax			$37.74
3rd party payment processing fee			$9.43
Fulfillment labor & materials			$9.00
Total project cost			$748.03
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			$164.20
Total project goal			$912.23
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal			$912.23
9 Donors			-$890.28
Donations toward project cost			-$748.03
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$142.25
Excluded support for DonorsChoose			-$21.95
Still needed View calculation Hide calculation			$0.00

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This teacher needs your help!

Wanted: High-Interest Books For Highly-Interested Students!

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Give this project a boost!

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

Equity Focus

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TEACHERS, FEELING INSPIRED?

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