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Ms. Toll from Fairfield, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Bring on the Books: We Love to Read!

We need a class library filled with the newest and most exciting books to ignite our passion for reading.

  • $1,687 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

About My Students

My students and I enjoy reading and analyzing all types of books - fiction and nonfiction alike. Books allow them to use their imaginations in order to create a picture inside their heads, and a good book can create lifelong learners and true critical thinkers. Some students like reading on their devices, but most students, believe it or not, like to actually have a book in their hand. When Alex and Emily came to me looking for book recommendations, I brought them to my class library. The books have seen better days and newer books have piqued the interest of teens. They asked, "Can we do a Donors Choose project to get more classroom books?" I told them that they were in charge!

Books are the windows to our souls. They allow us to imagine different worlds, think critically, analyze and evaluate different situations, and to empathize with others. They make us laugh and cry within only a couple of pages. They allow us to escape the reality of life and they say the things that we didn't even know that we wanted to say. This classroom library will improve our reading skills, help us become lifelong learners and readers, and teach us that there is more to life than the world we live in. These books will keep us engaged and our minds active.

In Their Own Words

With this project, we are trying to create a classroom library filled with modern literature that excites students and makes them want to read. Reading is so important to life and it should be interesting to us. These books are the new modern literature that we crave to devour in our free time.

We are the leaders of this entire project. We brought it to our teacher, we created and shopped for the books, and we are currently writing this project up in our free time. We will unpack, label, and share our love for reading with our classmates. We will help to create readers out of our peers.

This project is important because reading is an essential skill to life. Helping our teacher get a new class library with modern books will help get our classmates interested in reading, which in turn will help them throughout their entire life-fluency, comprehension, problem-solving, inferring, critical thinking, analyzing, empathizing, etc., the list can go on and on.

Ms. Toll
Grades 6-8

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The White Rabbit Chronicles Boxed Set: Alice in Zombieland,Through the Zombie Glass,The Queen of Zombie Hearts,A Mad Zombie Party • Amazon Business $26.78 4 $107.12
The Grisha Trilogy Boxed Set: Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, Ruin and Rising • Amazon Business $22.78 3 $68.34
The Six of Crows Duology Boxed Set • Amazon Business $21.58 3 $64.74
The Selection Series Box Set: The Selection, The Elite, The One • Amazon Business $15.97 4 $63.88
John Green Box Set • Amazon Business $24.68 2 $49.36
The Program • Amazon Business $12.29 4 $49.16
The Crown (The Selection) • Amazon Business $12.05 4 $48.20
The Treatment (Program) • Amazon Business $11.38 4 $45.52
The Heir (The Selection) • Amazon Business $11.16 4 $44.64
The Remedy • Amazon Business $10.77 4 $43.08
Shatter Me Series Box Set: Shatter Me, Unravel Me, Ignite Me • Amazon Business $21.45 2 $42.90
The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess • Amazon Business $37.85 1 $37.85
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Boxed Set • Amazon Business $34.73 1 $34.73
The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family • Amazon Business $8.61 4 $34.44
A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive • Amazon Business $8.37 4 $33.48
Perfect Chemistry (A Perfect Chemistry Novel) • Amazon Business $7.84 4 $31.36
Nineteen Minutes • Amazon Business $9.85 3 $29.55
Chain Reaction (A Perfect Chemistry Novel) • Amazon Business $7.31 4 $29.24
Panic • Amazon Business $14.39 2 $28.78
Rules of Attraction (A Perfect Chemistry Novel) • Amazon Business $7.19 4 $28.76
The Fever Code (Maze Runner, Book Five; Prequel) (The Maze Runner Series) • Amazon Business $12.34 2 $24.68
The Martian • Amazon Business $9.05 2 $18.10
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2, Special Rehearsal Edition Script • Amazon Business $17.98 1 $17.98
Lord of the Flies • Amazon Business $8.54 2 $17.08
Before I Fall Enhanced Edition • Amazon Business $8.48 2 $16.96
The List • Amazon Business $7.99 2 $15.98
Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices) • Amazon Business $14.69 1 $14.69
Thirteen Reasons Why • Amazon Business $6.79 2 $13.58
Will Grayson, Will Grayson • Amazon Business $6.70 2 $13.40
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses) • Amazon Business $12.79 1 $12.79
It: A Novel • Amazon Business $12.61 1 $12.61
Glass Sword (Red Queen) • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass) • Amazon Business $11.57 1 $11.57
A Court of Thorns and Roses • Amazon Business $11.29 1 $11.29
Eleanor & Park • Amazon Business $11.20 1 $11.20
The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy) • Amazon Business $11.16 1 $11.16
The Winner's Kiss (The Winner's Trilogy) • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
The Serpent King • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances • Amazon Business $5.08 2 $10.16
Just Listen • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
An Ember in the Ashes • Amazon Business $9.14 1 $9.14
Red Queen • Amazon Business $8.96 1 $8.96
Along for the Ride • Amazon Business $8.71 1 $8.71
The Truth About Forever • Amazon Business $8.68 1 $8.68
The Winner's Crime (The Winner's Trilogy) • Amazon Business $8.03 1 $8.03
The Moon and More • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Cruel Crown (Red Queen Novella) • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
Saint Anything • Amazon Business $6.70 1 $6.70
Lock and Key • Amazon Business $5.80 1 $5.80
What Happened to Goodbye • Amazon Business $5.64 1 $5.64

Materials cost

$1,268.12

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $116.03

3rd party payment processing fee

$19.02

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,433.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$252.91

Total project goal

$1,686.08

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,686.08

7 Donors

-$1,575.20

Donations toward project cost

-$1,339.67

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$235.53

match offer

-$110.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$93.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.88

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 $0.00

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