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Ms. Carbonell from East Hartford, CT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Completely Nutso for Nutmeg Nominees for 2025-26!

Help me give my students the Nutmeg Nominees for the 25-26 school year! These titles are released for kids to start reading in May 2025.

  • 12 donors
  • $837 goal

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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 Project

Our goal is to get the books for the 4th-6th and 7th-8th grade bands to have everyone who wants to vote in our 6th-8th school. We also want to encourage others to read as well through peer sharing. The Connecticut Nutmeg Book Awards started as a grade 4th-6th reading project, and has branched to grades 2-12. This project focuses on the 6th-8th grade band. Each grade band has 10 titles that students vote on. Which means the Nutmeg award is student driven!

Having students read and then be able to vote on the 10 relevant titles in May starts early in the school year!

I'm looking to add the titles in multiple copies so that students can check out books and be able to vote on them in May.

Ms. Carbonell East Hartford Middle School Grades 6-8

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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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East Hartford, CT 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

950 students impacted 12donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Plotting the Stars 1: Moongarden • Amazon Business $10.28 5 $51.40
The Carrefour Curse • Amazon Business $9.99 5 $49.95
The Dog Knight • Amazon Business $9.61 5 $48.05
Speak Up! • Amazon Business $9.45 5 $47.25
Dogtown (A Dogtown Book, 1) • Amazon Business $8.61 5 $43.05
It Found Us • Amazon Business $8.58 5 $42.90
Trex • Amazon Business $8.56 5 $42.80
Grounded • Amazon Business $8.50 5 $42.50
Frizzy • Amazon Business $8.87 4 $35.48
Air • Amazon Business $7.05 5 $35.25
What Happened to Rachel Riley? • Amazon Business $9.61 3 $28.83
Simon Sort of Says: Newbery Honor Award Winner • Amazon Business $8.92 3 $26.76
Don't Want to Be Your Monster • Amazon Business $8.89 3 $26.67
The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (National Book Award Finalist) • Amazon Business $7.82 3 $23.46
Concealed • Amazon Business $7.72 3 $23.16
Hamra and the Jungle of Memories • Amazon Business $7.47 3 $22.41
Alone • Amazon Business $7.19 3 $21.57
The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return series, 1) • Amazon Business $7.01 3 $21.03
Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena (Team Chu, 1) • Amazon Business $6.99 3 $20.97
The Last Cuentista: Newbery Medal Winner • Amazon Business $8.71 2 $17.42

Materials cost

$670.91

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.06

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$710.97

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$125.47

Total project goal

$836.44

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $836.44

10 Donors

-$711.44

Donations toward project cost

-$604.72

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$106.72

Matching donations from our partners

-$125.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$106.25

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.75

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