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Mrs. Housenick from Lake View Terrace, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Me Build A Class Library To Engage and Inspire Teens

My students need highly engaging books that will show them the power of reading and get them excited about our school's new independent reading program.

  • $544 goal

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My Students

Do you ever get so lost in the book you're reading that you lose all sense of time? Unfortunately, many of my students haven never had the sensation of being so absorbed by a book they don't want to put it down. My students often tell me they hate reading and do whatever they can to avoid it.

My students are motivated students who are choosing to attend a college-preparatory charter high school.

While they care about school and their future, they don't always understand the power of reading in helping them achieve their goals. Most of my students come from low-income, immigrant families and will be the first person in their family to attend college.

My Project

I am requesting a wide variety of books that will engage and inspire my students to read as we begin a school-wide independent reading program. Our teachers and staff understand the importance of reading in helping students build better vocabularies, become better writers and gain the skills they need for success in college. We have chosen to adopt a 20-minute a day independent reading program to help students read daily, but in order for this program to be successful, we need books that students connect with and will want to read. Our school doesn't have a library, so by stocking my classroom with great books, I can ensure that every student in my classroom has a great book in their hands each day.

Your donation will help my students learn the power of reading and help our school in our quest to make our students college-ready!

With your help, no student will waste their independent reading time on a book they don't like or don't connect with as we will have a rich, diverse and high-quality classroom library at their disposal!

Mrs. Housenick Partnerships to Uplift Communitites Community Charter Early College High School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

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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Lake View Terrace, CA View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

125 students impacted 9donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Help • AKJ Books $19.46 1 $19.46
The Autobiography of Malcolm X • AKJ Books $11.70 1 $11.70
Chasing Lincoln''s Killer • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
Stitches • AKJ Books $19.46 1 $19.46
Marching for Freedom • AKJ Books $15.59 1 $15.59
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Phillip Hoose • AKJ Books $7.79 1 $7.79
Once Was Lost Sara Zarr • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Split Swati Avasthi • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
Everything Is Illuminated • AKJ Books $10.91 1 $10.91
Hothouse • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
Sources of Light • AKJ Books $12.48 1 $12.48
Before I Fall • AKJ Books $14.03 1 $14.03
Last Night I Sang to the Monster Benjamin Alire Saenz • AKJ Books $13.22 1 $13.22
Trash Andy Mulligan • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer Lish McBride • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
The Unwritten 1 • AKJ Books $10.13 1 $10.13
Resistance, Book 1 • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
Ghostopolis • AKJ Books $10.13 1 $10.13
America, the Book • AKJ Books $12.47 1 $12.47
I Am America (And So Can You!) • AKJ Books $12.47 1 $12.47
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides • AKJ Books $11.70 1 $11.70
33 Revolutions Per Minute • AKJ Books $15.59 1 $15.59
Becoming Billie Holiday • AKJ Books $17.96 1 $17.96
Thoreau at Walden • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row • AKJ Books $14.03 1 $14.03
Always Running • AKJ Books $11.70 1 $11.70
It''s Complicated: The American Teenager Robin Bowman (Photog • AKJ Books $31.20 1 $31.20
War Is... • AKJ Books $14.03 1 $14.03

Materials cost

$385.81

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $35.30

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.79

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$461.90

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$81.51

Total project goal

$543.41

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $543.41

9 Donors

-$543.41

Donations toward project cost

-$461.90

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$81.51

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