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Mr. Larson from Camas, WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books Like Me

Help me give my students books like "Cemetery Boys," by Aiden Thomas, books that provide students with a view of the problems, struggles and triumphs they witness daily yet rarely have the answers for.

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My Students

This year my students are all Seniors and having lived through social upheaval, pandemic, and the search for truth, they are hungry for answers. My students were Sophomores when their world was turned upside down. The answers for students come from a variety of sources, many of which were inaccessible and or absent for the duration and causing a definitive disconnect. For some, those answers come in the form of discourse, family/friends, the internet and social media, the quality of which often is dictated by unknown, misinformation, and lack of personal introspection. I want to bring back that introspection in their lives.

It amazes me how resilient and passionate my students are about what is going on in the world and that alone inspires and motivates me to put before them the best resources to navigate the world.

It's an amazing time to be teaching and watching a reset of sorts take place and the students begin again to shift back to building on their learning. My hope is to capitalize on this shift and use it as fuel to engage all my students.

My Project

My students read from a choice book daily. Studies show that proximately is a factor when it comes to young adults and reading. That said, a number of lessons and sharing will take place. Students will be able to check books out and bring them to class for reading instruction and sharing in small groups. Ideally this will get the snowball rolling as they learn from each other and have engaging conversations about the great book they read. The big outcome for my students is to recognize the societal and individual struggles that exist in our society, to develop compassion and empathy for experiences in our own community. I like nice.

Mr. Larson Union High School Grades 9-12

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Camas, WA View local requests

More than half 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

138 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Cemetery Boys • Amazon Business $14.30 2 $28.60
In the Wild Light • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z • Amazon Business $15.63 1 $15.63
Ace of Spades • Amazon Business $15.10 1 $15.10
Elatsoe • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
Dragon Sword and Wind Child • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel • Amazon Business $13.97 1 $13.97
XOXO • Amazon Business $13.90 1 $13.90
The Ghosts We Keep • Amazon Business $13.60 1 $13.60
The Summer I Wasn't Me • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
The Cost of Knowing • Amazon Business $13.28 1 $13.28
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives • Amazon Business $13.18 1 $13.18
Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
The Six (The Six, 1) • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
Barely Missing Everything • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
SLAY • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story • Amazon Business $11.67 1 $11.67
Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
A Heart in a Body in the World • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Girl Mans Up • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Girls Save the World in This One • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Heretics Anonymous • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Fix • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood • Amazon Business $10.70 1 $10.70
Bone Gap • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Linked • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Eye of Minds (The Mortality Doctrine, Book One) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Dear Justyce • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files) • Amazon Business $9.96 1 $9.96
The Poet X • Amazon Business $9.50 1 $9.50
Muted • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Under the Bridge • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Booked (The Crossover Series) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Rebound (The Crossover Series) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition, Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice • Amazon Business $8.66 1 $8.66
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
Shadow of the Dragon • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Little Brother • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Impossible Knife of Memory • Amazon Business $7.63 1 $7.63
Symptoms of Being Human • Amazon Business $7.56 1 $7.56
Stuck in Neutral (Stuck in Neutral, 1) • Amazon Business $7.49 1 $7.49
Dear Martin • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
Ghost Boys • Amazon Business $6.89 1 $6.89
Scythe (1) (Arc of a Scythe) • Amazon Business $6.02 1 $6.02

Materials cost

$549.93

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $48.12

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.25

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$636.30

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$112.29

Total project goal

$748.59

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $748.59

2 Donors

-$348.71

Donations toward project cost

-$328.77

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.94

match offer

-$361.80

Match offer toward project cost

-$307.53

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.27

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$38.08

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