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Ms. Frett from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Fueling Curiosity Through Books!

My students need books! Wonderful, impactful, change-the-way-you-see-the-world books to read on breaks and over the summer.

  • $588 goal

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My Students

My students motivate me each and every day. They are thoughtful, strong, funny, insightful, kind, driven young people who push me each and every day to be a better teacher, and a more socially conscious individual. They demand so much from me, as I do from them.

My students face a variety of challenges--they attend school in an underfunded district, in a city plagued by segregated violence, run by individuals who fail to acknowledge the link between the two.

Despite the shortcomings of many of the politicians and leaders around them, my students come to school each and every day with an eye toward the future. They work hard to do their best, overcoming obstacles no child should face as hurdles to education, shaping themselves to be the change-makers we need in our workplaces and public institutions.

My Project

Many of my students dislike reading, or simply find it a task to complete for school. Through a free lending library in my classroom, students will have an opportunity to pick up a great book to read over a break or the summer, without any hurdles in their way.

Literature and the social sciences intersect in dynamic ways--having this library will enable me to recommend and lend a book when a student's interest is sparked by a particular topic or issue.

By fueling my students curiosities beyond what they expect, beyond what is on the syllabus, these books will benefit my students through the impactful stories of humanity that lies woven into these narratives.

Ms. Frett Kenwood Academy Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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.

More about Ms. Frett

Chicago, IL 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

170 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer • Amazon Business $16.20 1 $16.20
A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel • Amazon Business $14.21 1 $14.21
Between the World and Me • Amazon Business $14.21 1 $14.21
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness • Amazon Business $13.56 1 $13.56
Survival In Auschwitz • Amazon Business $13.06 1 $13.06
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) • Amazon Business $12.74 1 $12.74
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Movie Tie-In Edition) • Amazon Business $12.51 1 $12.51
East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) • Amazon Business $12.23 1 $12.23
The Things They Carried • Amazon Business $12.04 1 $12.04
Brave New World • Amazon Business $11.23 1 $11.23
Native Son (Perennial Classics) • Amazon Business $10.87 1 $10.87
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (20th Anniversary Edition) • Amazon Business $10.87 1 $10.87
The Grapes of Wrath • Amazon Business $10.73 1 $10.73
Ishmael:A Novel • Amazon Business $10.70 1 $10.70
Their Eyes Were Watching God • Amazon Business $10.62 1 $10.62
The God of Small Things: A Novel • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda • Amazon Business $10.44 1 $10.44
The Glass Castle: A Memoir • Amazon Business $10.29 1 $10.29
The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club) • Amazon Business $10.29 1 $10.29
Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition • Amazon Business $10.21 1 $10.21
The Bell Jar • Amazon Business $10.16 1 $10.16
Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) • Amazon Business $10.11 1 $10.11
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao • Amazon Business $10.00 1 $10.00
Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher • Amazon Business $9.91 1 $9.91
The Remains of the Day • Amazon Business $9.74 1 $9.74
Chronicle of a Death Foretold • Amazon Business $9.71 1 $9.71
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) • Amazon Business $9.69 1 $9.69
Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.61 1 $9.61
The Handmaid's Tale • Amazon Business $9.57 1 $9.57
Invisible Man • Amazon Business $9.33 1 $9.33
The Kite Runner • Amazon Business $9.04 1 $9.04
Beloved • Amazon Business $9.04 1 $9.04
Man's Search for Meaning • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Fahrenheit 451 • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Cat's Cradle: A Novel • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Bluest Eye (Vintage International) • Amazon Business $8.90 1 $8.90
Americanah • Amazon Business $8.89 1 $8.89
Black Like Me • Amazon Business $7.50 1 $7.50
Animal farm: A Fairy Story • Amazon Business $6.83 1 $6.83
Lord of the Flies • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
The House on Mango Street • Amazon Business $6.75 1 $6.75
The Catcher in the Rye • Amazon Business $6.74 1 $6.74
Night (Night) • Amazon Business $6.00 1 $6.00
A Raisin in the Sun • Amazon Business $6.00 1 $6.00
1984 (Signet Classics) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
To Kill a Mockingbird • Amazon Business $5.89 1 $5.89
Siddhartha • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39

Materials cost

$462.14

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.93

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$499.07

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.07

Total project goal

$587.14

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $587.14

9 Donors

-$293.56

Donations toward project cost

-$249.53

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.03

match offer

-$293.58

Match offer toward project cost

-$249.54

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.04

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