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Mr. Larson from Camas, WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Growing a Class Library

Help me give my students a variety of text that will pique their personal interests and be interesting. Several of the book selected are graphic novels and are in high demand given their great illustrations and gripping issues.

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My Students

This year my students are all Seniors and having lived through social upheaval, pandemic, and the search for truth, they are hungry for answers. My students were Sophomores when their world was turned upside down. The answers for students come from a variety of sources, many of which were inaccessible and or absent for the duration and causing a definitive disconnect. For some, those answers come in the form of discourse, family/friends, the internet and social media, the quality of which often is dictated by unknown, misinformation, and lack of personal introspection. I want to bring back that introspection in their lives.

It amazes me how resilient and passionate my students are about what is going on in the world and that alone inspires and motivates me to put before them the best resources to navigate the world.

It's an amazing time to be teaching and watching a reset of sorts take place and the students begin again to shift back to building on their learning. My hope is to capitalize on this shift and use it as fuel to engage all my students.

My Project

The difference these books make in the lives and learning of my students is that texts, particularly fiction texts are where many readers find solutions to life's big questions or share something in common with a book's protagonist, or at least the conflict the protagonist is dealing with.

Students will be able to pre-read and read books in class and also check out a book to have on their person whether at school or at home.

Having this access is crucial as we know how easy a roadblock of any kind can deter good reading-and we want students to get hooked on reading.

Mr. Larson Union High School Grades 9-12

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Camas, WA 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

138 students impacted 4donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dragon Hoops • Amazon Business $21.67 1 $21.67
Angie Thomas 2-Book Box Set: The Hate U Give and On the Come Up • Amazon Business $20.34 1 $20.34
The Mamba Mentality: How I Play • Amazon Business $18.00 1 $18.00
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty • Amazon Business $18.00 1 $18.00
The To All the Boys I've Loved Before Paperback Collection: To All the Boys I've Loved Before; P.S. I Still Love You; Always and Forever, Lara Jean • Amazon Business $17.85 1 $17.85
Everything Sad Is Untrue: (a true story) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
How We Fall Apart • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Henna Wars • Amazon Business $15.80 1 $15.80
Dear Justyce • Amazon Business $15.60 1 $15.60
Me (Moth) • Amazon Business $15.59 1 $15.59
I'll Be the One • Amazon Business $15.39 1 $15.39
They Called Us Enemy • Amazon Business $15.38 1 $15.38
White Smoke • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
The Other Side • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Punching the Air • Amazon Business $14.60 1 $14.60
Angel of Greenwood • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
This Is My America • Amazon Business $14.47 1 $14.47
What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Clap When You Land • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Concrete Rose • Amazon Business $12.93 1 $12.93
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement • Amazon Business $11.88 1 $11.88
Furia • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Miseducation of Cameron Post • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Lobizona (Wolves of No World, 1) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Whale Talk • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The New David Espinoza • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Swing (Blink) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Solo (Blink) • Amazon Business $10.95 1 $10.95
Monday's Not Coming • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
Watch Over Me • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Chinese Handcuffs • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
I Am the Cheese • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Running Loose • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Period 8 • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Brown Boy Nowhere: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
I Named My Dog Pushkin (And Other Immigrant Tales): Notes From a Soviet Girl on Becoming an American Woman • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Sadie • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Mexican WhiteBoy • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Felix Ever After • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Patron Saints of Nothing • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Girl, Stolen: A Novel (Girl, Stolen, 1) • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Girl, Stolen: A Novel (Girl, Stolen, 1) • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes • Amazon Business $9.36 1 $9.36
Until Friday Night (Field Party) • Amazon Business $9.34 1 $9.34
The Way I Used to Be • Amazon Business $9.34 1 $9.34
Tenderness • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Five Total Strangers • Amazon Business $8.47 1 $8.47
Yo no soy tu perfecta hija mexicana / I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $8.44 1 $8.44
We All Fall Down • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Us, in Progress: Short Stories About Young Latinos • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive • Amazon Business $7.68 1 $7.68
The Astonishing Color of After • Amazon Business $7.68 1 $7.68
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
The Chocolate War • Amazon Business $7.21 1 $7.21
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) • Amazon Business $7.04 1 $7.04
Buddha Boy • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Tunes for Bears to Dance To • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • Amazon Business $5.91 1 $5.91
All American Boys • Amazon Business $5.86 1 $5.86

Materials cost

$705.22

Vendor shipping charges

 $4.98

Sales tax

 $61.71

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.58

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$812.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$143.38

Total project goal

$955.87

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $955.87

2 Donors

-$549.16

Donations toward project cost

-$541.66

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

match offer

-$318.62

Match offer toward project cost

-$270.83

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$47.79

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$88.09

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