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Mrs. Norwood from Houston, TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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It's a Tween, Tween World

My students need 45 high interest books written specifically for "tweens" (ages 10-12). My kids LOVE when we are able to add new books to our library. With so many amazing new titles to choose from, we would be grateful for some new additions to our classroom!

  • $744 goal

This project expired on May 28, 2009.

This project expired on May 28, 2009.

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

Do you have beloved memories of well-loved books from your childhood? Many of my inner city students do not have these memories because they have spent their first twelve years of life as non-readers. My colleagues and I are working hard every day to reverse this growing trend of "dormant" young readers in Texas. At my school, we believe that every child should have access to a free college preparatory education, regardless of zip code or economic background. Our school exists to send low-income kids to college so that they can come back and transform their communities. I teach 7th grade English at an inner city charter school where we work hard every day to provide kids with the educational and emotional resources they need to be successful in life.

At a charter school with a very limited budget, it can be difficult to obtain the resources needed for a successful literacy program. My students participate in reading workshop, a reading program where students read books of their choice on their personal reading level. In a reading workshop model, students read up to ten times more books than they would read with a traditional class novel approach. The only problem (if you can even call it a problem!) is that kids constantly want new books to choose from. A vibrant workshop classroom library needs at least 1,500 books to serve 200 kids a year.

Our classroom library is constantly growing, but by mid-year, the kids always begging me for new books! On a limited teacher's salary, there are only so many books I can purchase out of my own pocket. When I do, the kids practically knock me over at the door, taking books out of boxes and "claiming" them before I can even put them on the shelf! Please help us keep this excitement through the spring semester by donating an award-winning collection of "tween" literature to our library. Tween books are written about high interest subjects specifically for 10-13 year olds.

Remember those memories of childhood books that you have? The very books you donate to our classroom could become beloved parts of a child's life that will stay with them throughout adulthood. Please help kids become powerful readers by supplying them with the books they want and need!

Mrs. Norwood
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Garden of Eve K. L. Going • Barnes and Noble $15.30 1 $15.30
Cyberia (Cyberia Series #1) Chris Lynch • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
Deep Down Popular Phoebe Stone • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
Spellspam (Worldweavers Series #2) Alma Alexander • Barnes and Noble $16.19 1 $16.19
Love Me Tender Audrey Couloumbis • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
Savage David Almond, Dave McKean (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Amulet: The Stonekeeper (Amulet Series #1) Kibuishi • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series #1) Jeff Kinney • Barnes and Noble $10.36 1 $10.36
The Willoughbys Lois Lowry, Lois Lowry (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.80 1 $12.80
My Dad's a Birdman David Almond, Polly Dunbar (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
A Thousand Never Evers Shana Burg • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Medusa Jones Ross Collins, Ross Collins (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
Millions Frank Cottrell Boyce • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Oddest of All Bruce Coville • Barnes and Noble $14.40 1 $14.40
This Is What I Did Ann Dee Ellis • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
Mystery of the Fool and the Vanisher David Ellwand, Ruth Ellwand • Barnes and Noble $15.19 1 $15.19
Thumbelina, Tiny Runaway Bride Adapted by Barbara Ensor, Hans Christian Andersen • Barnes and Noble $11.69 1 $11.69
Bang! Sharon Flake, Colin Bootman (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Fowl Language D. L. Garfinkle, Ethan Long (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems John Grandits, John Grandits (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.35 1 $5.35
Found (Missing Series #1) Margaret Peterson Haddix • Barnes and Noble $12.79 1 $12.79
Bird Lake Moon Kevin Henkes • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Queen of the World! (Babymouse Series) Jennifer L. Holm, Matthew Holm • Barnes and Noble $5.35 1 $5.35
Punished! David Lubar • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Merchant of Death (Pendragon Series #1) D. J. MacHale, Designed by Debra Sfetsios, Victor Lee • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Magic Pickle Scott Morse, Jose Garibaldi (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Night of the Homework Zombies Scott Nickel • Barnes and Noble $4.45 1 $4.45
The Magic Thief (Magic Thief Series #1) Sarah Prineas, Antonio Javier Caparo (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.59 1 $13.59
Sarah Simpson's Rules for Living Rebecca Rupp • Barnes and Noble $12.59 1 $12.59
Simon's Dream (The Fog Mound Series #3) Susan Schade, Jon Buller (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
The Wednesday Wars Gary D. Schmidt • Barnes and Noble $12.80 1 $12.80
Pirates of the Retail Wasteland Adam Selzer • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
The Mysterious Benedict Society Trenton Lee Stewart, Carson Ellis (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Arrival Tan, Shaun Tan (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.99 1 $15.99
First Escape G. P. Taylor • Barnes and Noble $15.99 1 $15.99
A Crooked Kind of Perfect Linda Urban • Barnes and Noble $12.80 1 $12.80
100 Cupboards N. D. Wilson • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
42 Miles Tracie Vaughn Zimmer, Elaine Clayton (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.40 1 $14.40
The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues Series #1) Rick Riordan • Barnes and Noble $10.39 1 $10.39
One False Note (The 39 Clues Series #2) Gordon Korman • Barnes and Noble $9.74 1 $9.74
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume 1: The Pox Party M. T. Anderson • Barnes and Noble $9.89 1 $9.89
Twisted Laurie Halse Anderson • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Kin (The Good Neighbors Series #1), Vol. 1 Holly Black, Ted Naifeh (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.59 1 $13.59
The London Eye Mystery Siobhan Dowd • Barnes and Noble $12.79 1 $12.79
The Juvie Three Gordon Korman • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39

Materials cost

$526.61

Vendor shipping charges

 $52.66

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.17

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$609.44

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$133.78

Total project goal

$743.22

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