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Ms. Bright-Wiggins from Ponca City, OK is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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From Reluctant to Ravenous: Creating Life-Long Readers!

My students need 24 adolescent novels written by great authors that will grab their attention and not let go, from "The Mortal Instruments" to "Twilight: The Graphic Novel".

  • $370 goal

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My Students

Reluctant, dormant, unmotivated, remedial, below-level - each of these words, at one time or another, has been used to describe the type of student I work with daily, but I think differently. I think my students simply need to be exposed to great teen literature!

My students range in age from 13 to 16 years old, and most have struggled with reading skills since entering school at age four.

Many will admit that they've never finished a book on their own, and many will tell me that they never plan to do so. Unfortunately, my students have never experienced the joy of being captured by a plot or a special character. For them, reading is a chore. My students and I are housed in an eighth-grade center, and approximately 1/3 of all 8th graders in my district receive special reading services.

My Project

I am always looking for ways to add to my classroom library. I want to provide my students with easy access to a variety of exciting books written by authors I know they'll love if they just give them a chance. Because my students' previous reading experiences are mostly negative, I allow them to choose what they read. I want to offer them a pleasurable reading experience, and I allow class time every day for independent reading. Nancie Atwell, renowned literacy leader, also believes in frequent, voluminous reading as part of the everyday curriculum to build stronger, engaged readers. Of this, she says, "[Students] build fluency, stamina, vocabulary, confidence, critical abilities, habits, tastes, and comprehension." This project, if funded, would allow me to get more "never-fail" books into the hands of my students. Many of my requested titles are part of a series, like the Morganville Vampires Series, so if a student gets hooked by Book #1, he/she will have another book waiting for them when they finish.

By donating to this project, you will be helping me build a classroom library that can be used to introduce my students to a wider range of literature with attention-grabbing plots written by great young adult authors.

YOU can turn a dormant reader into a voracious one!

Ms. Bright-Wiggins Ponca City East Middle School Grades 6-8

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Ponca City, OK 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
Stormbreaker: The Graphic Novel Anthony Horowitz, Kanako (Illustrator), Yuzuru (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.99 1 $11.99
Sarah Dessen Gift Set Sarah Dessen • Barnes and Noble $21.57 1 $21.57
Vampire Academy Box Set Richelle Mead • Barnes and Noble $17.54 1 $17.54
Fade Out (Morganville Vampires Series #7) Rachel Caine • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Carpe Corpus (Morganville Vampires Series #6) Rachel Caine • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Lord of Misrule (Morganville Vampires Series #5) Rachel Caine • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Feast of Fools (Morganville Vampires Series #4) Rachel Caine • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Midnight Alley (Morganville Vampires Series #3) Rachel Caine • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
The Dead Girls' Dance (Morganville Vampires Series #2) Rachel Caine • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Glass Houses (Morganville Vampires Series #1) Rachel Caine • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Alex Rider Collection Anthony Horowitz • Barnes and Noble $19.17 1 $19.17
Eagle Strike (Alex Rider Series #4) Anthony Horowitz • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Ark Angel (Alex Rider Series #6) Anthony Horowitz • Barnes and Noble $3.98 1 $3.98
Scorpia (Alex Rider Series #5) Anthony Horowitz • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Snakehead (Alex Rider Series #7) Anthony Horowitz • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider Series #8) Anthony Horowitz • Barnes and Noble $11.69 1 $11.69
Skeleton Key: The Graphic Novel (Alex Rider Series) Anthony Horowitz, Kanako (Illustrator), Yuzuru (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.99 1 $11.99
Point Blank: The Graphic Novel (Alex Rider Series) Anthony Horowitz, Antony Johnston, Kanako (Illustrator), Yuzuru (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.99 1 $11.99
Going Bovine Libba Bray • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Thirteen Reasons Why Jay Asher • Barnes and Noble $11.04 1 $11.04
Lockdown Walter Dean Myers • Barnes and Noble $13.59 1 $13.59
Eleventh Grade Burns (The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Series #4) Heather Brewer • Barnes and Noble $11.04 1 $11.04
The Mortal Instruments Boxed Set: City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass (Mortal Instruments Series) Cassandra Clare • Barnes and Noble $39.99 1 $39.99
Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 Stephenie Meyer, Young Kim (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.99 1 $11.99

Materials cost

$277.56

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $12.49

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.16

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$303.21

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$66.56

Total project goal

$369.77

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $369.77

6 Donors

-$353.30

Donations toward project cost

-$303.21

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$50.09

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$16.47

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