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Mr. Jones from Hillsboro, OR is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Classroom Library Books: For So Many Reasons

Help me give my students a classroom library filled with the latest and greatest books available - the books they deserve, the books they need, the books that might just turn them into lifelong readers.

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My Project

In order to help my seventh-grade language arts students become lifelong readers, I would like to provide for our classroom library a wide variety of high-interest, high-quality literature—the latest and greatest nonfiction, novels, graphic novels, and manga.

Here at Poynter Middle School, in Hillsboro, Oregon, we're lucky to have as students each year some of the brightest and kindest human beings on the planet.

Seeing their earnest faces each day is truly a gift.

And we've seen what dedicated time for independent choice-reading can do for our students. Here's an excerpt from an email I recently received from a student:

"Hello Mr. Jones, I just wanted to say THANK YOU SO MUCH for adding 'Everything, Everything' to our classroom library. I finished it around five minutes ago and oh my goodness it is such an unexpected turn of events that makes this book one of my favorites. So, thank you for adding it to my Favorites collection!"

What really works - what turns students into lifelong readers - is providing access to the very BEST books available. And this requires not only a teacher (me) who cares enough to find such books, but also the financial means to do so.

And that's why I'm turning to Donors Choose. Thank you so much.

Mr. Jones J.W. Poynter Middle School Grades 6-8

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Hillsboro, OR 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Scholastic Dictionary Of Idioms • Amazon Business $16.54 1 $16.54
Tales of a Seventh-Grade Lizard Boy • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Merriam-Webster’s Intermediate Visual Dictionary - Essential vocabulary-building tool for middle school students • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson & the Olympians) • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 1: Volume 1 • Amazon Business $14.38 1 $14.38
What It's Like to Be a Bird (Adapted for Young Readers): From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing--What Birds Are Doing and Why • Amazon Business $14.13 1 $14.13
Monkey Prince Vol. 1: Enter the Monkey • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
A First Time for Everything • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Duel • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
The Books of Clash Volume 1: Legendary Legends of Legendarious Achievery (Books of Clash, 1) • Amazon Business $11.50 1 $11.50
Scholastic Dictionary of Spelling • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Dogtown (A Dogtown Book, 1) • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
The Aquanaut: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $10.39 1 $10.39
Cat Kid Comic Club: Influencers: A Graphic Novel (Cat Kid Comic Club #5): From the Creator of Dog Man • Amazon Business $10.38 1 $10.38
Garvey's Choice • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Spy Camp the Graphic Novel (Spy School) • Amazon Business $9.20 1 $9.20
The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return series, 1) • Amazon Business $8.30 1 $8.30
Home of the Brave • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Who Was Alexander Hamilton? • Amazon Business $5.40 1 $5.40

Materials cost

$220.77

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.31

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$254.08

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$44.84

Total project goal

$298.92

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $298.92

1 Donor

-$282.31

Donations toward project cost

-$254.08

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.23

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$16.61

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