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

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Classroom Library Books

My students need high quality, engaging, and relevant literature to reading during Accelerated Reading time.

  • $373 goal

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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.

My Students

My students are starving for high quality literature! Every year they exhaust my bookshelves and those in our school library reading everything they can get their hands on. Some even venture to our public library, which is quite a distance, just get new books to read! Lets bring books to these kids!

My class is located in a Kindergarten through 8th grade school just east of San Francisco.

Our school is comprised of a mixed demographic of students with more than 90% receiving free or reduced lunches. The challenges at home don't stop my students from reading and reading and reading. Each year, my 7th grade students read over 75% of the books in my classroom library and plead for me to purchase more high interest, engaging books! All this reading has resulted in phenomenal reading growth and exhausted my classroom books and bookshelves! This year, my 7th graders increased their reading level by an average of two grade levels in just one year! Our school strives to improve the lives of our students through engaging teaching strategies and programs after school run by our teachers. We are active participants in the No Excuses University group of schools and believe that our students are "College Bound"!

My Project

My students will use these books to read during our Accelerated Reading time, which is 30 minutes each day allotted to read and take tests on the books read to ensure comprehension. At the end of each month we present our top word readers with "degrees" earned for reaching milestones (250,000; 500,000; and 1 million words). When we started the Accelerated Reading program and milestone incentives just a few short years ago we only had 2 students achieve a million words by the end of the school year and earn a trip to a nearby bowling alley with their teachers! This year, we had over 35 students spanning from grades 2-7 achieve this goal! I look forward to encouraging more students to meet this goal!!!

These books will improve the selection and availability of engaging literature in my classroom.

In turn, this will encourage my students to read books that are interesting to them and promote learning! Reading opens the door to so many other opportunities. With your donations, I will be able to help my students open those doors and learn!!

Mrs. Guernsey David Weir K-8 Preparatory School Grades 6-8

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Fairfield, CA View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

210 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Civil Rights (6 bk set) • AKJ Books $56.88 1 $56.88
Hunger Games Trilogy Boxed Set Suzanne Collins • AKJ Books $39.40 1 $39.40
The Titan''s Curse • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
Russian Roulette • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
Last Olympian, The (The Percy Jackson and the Olympians) • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
Battle of the Labyrinth • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
The Bully - Bluford Series #5 (Townsend) • AKJ Books $5.00 2 $10.00
The Demigod Files • AKJ Books $9.45 1 $9.45
Scorpia • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
Stormbreaker • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
Point Blank • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
Skeleton Key • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
Eagle Strike • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
Ark Angel • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
Snakehead • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
Crocodile Tears • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
Scorpia Rising • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
Titan''s Curse • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
The Battle of the Labyrinth • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
Blood is Thicker - Bluford Series #8 (Townsend) • AKJ Books $2.00 2 $4.00
A Matter of Trust - Bluford Series #2 (Townsend) • AKJ Books $2.00 2 $4.00
Summer of Secrets - Bluford Series #10 (Townsend) • AKJ Books $1.50 2 $3.00
The Fallen - Bluford Series #11 (Townsend) • AKJ Books $1.50 2 $3.00
Brothers in Arms - Bluford Series #9 (Townsend) • AKJ Books $1.50 2 $3.00
Search for Safety - Bluford Series #13 (Townsend) • AKJ Books $1.50 2 $3.00

Materials cost

$258.95

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $23.69

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$316.52

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$55.86

Total project goal

$372.38

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $372.38

6 Donors

-$332.38

Donations toward project cost

-$282.52

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$49.86

match offer

-$40.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$34.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$6.00

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