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Mrs. Agostino from Danville, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Choice Reading for Lifelong Readers

Help me give my students some of the newest and most exciting young adult and adult literature.

  • $697 goal

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My Students

In our high performing community, our students "do school," and care greatly about getting good grades, but often miss out on meaningful learning in the process. More specifically, many of them have lost their love of reading. They view reading as a boring chore, one that they do begrudgingly, or even worse, don't do at all.

My students crave choice and independence in their learning.

I believe they need more choice in what they read and study, to entice them to be lifelong readers and learners. Also, as in any classroom, I have a huge range of reading abilities. By giving them a choice, I can better differentiate instruction and use reading conferences to make sure each student has a book that works for him or her.

My Project

These titles are mostly new releases in both young adult and adult fiction. My classroom is heavily based on choice, with different students reading books from different genres and different levels concurrently. These books will help give more choice to my students, whether they are in person or at home.

The great thing about books is that they keep on giving.

Though we only have a few weeks left this school year, these books will continue to be available next school year too, when we hopefully welcome even more students back in person. I am excited about these titles and know my students will be too!

Mrs. Agostino San Ramon Valley High School Grades 9-12

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Danville, CA View local requests 165 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Project Hail Mary: A Novel • Amazon Business $21.24 1 $21.24
In the Quick: A Novel • Amazon Business $19.84 1 $19.84
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 • Amazon Business $18.98 1 $18.98
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America • Amazon Business $17.41 1 $17.41
Know My Name: A Memoir • Amazon Business $16.20 1 $16.20
Realm Breaker • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel (The Carls) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Hurricane Summer: A Novel • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Kate in Waiting • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire • Amazon Business $15.89 1 $15.89
My Vanishing Country: A Memoir • Amazon Business $15.79 1 $15.79
The Gilded Ones • Amazon Business $15.39 1 $15.39
Again Again • Amazon Business $15.28 1 $15.28
The Electric Kingdom • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
The Project: A Novel • Amazon Business $15.06 1 $15.06
These Violent Delights • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
What Big Teeth • Amazon Business $14.89 1 $14.89
The Awakening of Malcolm X: A Novel • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
Love Is a Revolution • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
King and the Dragonflies • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Apple: (Skin to the Core) • Amazon Business $14.21 1 $14.21
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
You Have a Match: A Novel • Amazon Business $13.28 1 $13.28
The Cost of Knowing • Amazon Business $13.28 1 $13.28
Queenie • Amazon Business $13.25 1 $13.25
Firekeeper's Daughter • Amazon Business $13.12 1 $13.12
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town • Amazon Business $13.11 1 $13.11
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person • Amazon Business $12.36 1 $12.36
Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Where the World Ends • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Downstairs Girl • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
We Set the Dark on Fire • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Halsey Street • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Blood Water Paint • Amazon Business $7.68 1 $7.68
Call Me by Your Name: A Novel • Amazon Business $6.86 1 $6.86

Materials cost

$508.07

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $46.49

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.62

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$592.18

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$104.50

Total project goal

$696.68

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $696.68

9 Donors

-$488.97

Donations toward project cost

-$426.87

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$62.10

match offer

-$194.50

Match offer toward project cost

-$165.32

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.18

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$13.23

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