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Discovering New Worlds through Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Help me give my students an expansive library filled with a variety of science fiction and fantasy texts.

  • $1,114 goal

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My Project

Throughout the school year, we engage in book clubs to share and explore texts as a community. To finish off this school year, we will be working in book clubs again to read science fiction and fantasy texts.

During this unit, our mini-lessons and book club discussions will help us think critically about characters and themes in these texts in ways that help us understand ourselves and our world.

We also aim to build our classroom library with novels that represent different levels and topics to captivate readers. Adding new books helps to revive interest in reading and enables students to build connections in powerful ways.

We will focus on identifying and analyzing the elements of science fiction and fantasy texts, evaluating various themes, and ultimately writing our own science fiction or fantasy stories.

Mrs. Ridley Deerfield Elementary School Grades 6-8

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Mountainside, NJ View local requests 86 students impacted 24donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Divergent Series Box Set (Books 1-4) • Amazon Business $32.57 3 $97.71
Wildwood Chronicles 3-Book Box Set: Wildwood, Under Wildwood, Wildwood Imperium • Amazon Business $25.58 3 $76.74
The Probability of Everything • Amazon Business $14.70 5 $73.50
Legend Series 3 Books Collection Set By Marie Lu (Legend, Prodigy, Champion) • Amazon Business $29.99 2 $59.98
The Books Of Ember: The City of Ember / The People of Sparks / The Prophet of Yonwood / The Diamond of Darkhold • Amazon Business $19.46 3 $58.38
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) (The Hunger Games) • Amazon Business $12.38 4 $49.52
Atlas and the Multiverse: Seeking Courage (Atlasverse) • Amazon Business $14.95 3 $44.85
Hook's Daughter: The Untold Tale of a Pirate Princess (The Pirate Princess Chronicles) • Amazon Business $10.60 4 $42.40
The Book of Chaos (Starfell) • Amazon Business $12.16 3 $36.48
The Apothecary (The Apothecary Series) • Amazon Business $8.24 4 $32.96
Ender's Game (The Ender Saga, 1) • Amazon Business $10.49 3 $31.47
A Wish in the Dark • Amazon Business $6.99 4 $27.96
Catching Fire |Hunger Games|2 • Amazon Business $8.67 3 $26.01
Seafire • Amazon Business $8.36 3 $25.08
The Forbidden Library • Amazon Business $7.50 3 $22.50
Pan's Secret: A Pirate Princess's Quest for Answers (The Pirate Princess Chronicles) • Amazon Business $10.99 2 $21.98
Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) • Amazon Business $10.90 2 $21.80
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games) • Amazon Business $9.50 2 $19.00
The Tail of Emily Windsnap • Amazon Business $6.16 3 $18.48
The Girl Who Looked Beyond The Stars (Sheena Meyer) • Amazon Business $9.24 2 $18.48
The Hunger Games • Amazon Business $8.99 2 $17.98
The Apprentices (The Apothecary Series) • Amazon Business $8.99 2 $17.98
Twilight Robbery: A Shadow Jumper Mystery Adventure • Amazon Business $7.99 2 $15.98
The List • Amazon Business $7.99 2 $15.98
The Time Travelers (The Gideon Trilogy, Book 1) • Amazon Business $7.91 2 $15.82
Gregor the Overlander • Amazon Business $6.84 2 $13.68

Materials cost

$902.70

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.54

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$946.24

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$166.98

Total project goal

$1,113.22

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,113.22

22 Donors

-$1,041.37

Donations toward project cost

-$898.91

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$142.46

match offer

-$55.69

Match offer toward project cost

-$47.34

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.35

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$16.17

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