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

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High-Interest Classroom Library

Help me give my students engaging and relevant texts to read right here in their own classroom!

  • $794 goal

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My Students

The pandemic has hit everyone hard and we are especially noticing that in our classrooms. Our students have forgotten how to love school, love learning, and we are seeing more and more that they are struggling to find texts they connect with.

It is important to me, not only as an English teacher but a lover of literature, that my students be able to go to my bookshelves and find something that engages them, something they connect with, something they enjoy reading.

Over the years, our student population has changed and I am hoping to build a classroom library that reflects that change. The numbers of Latinx, ELL, Pacific Islander, and reluctant readers overall has increased and the books on my shelves need to reflect those needs.

My Project

More and more, we are struggling to find engaging books for students to read. They are looking for things that are new and exciting, up and coming, relevant to what they are seeing in the world. I want to get good books in my students' hands.

I want them reading, I want them thinking, I want them writing.

The research shows that the more you can get a book in their hands, talk about them and surround them with literacy, the better readers and writing they will become. These will serve as choice reading books they read in class and at home; books they choose to engage in, so let's make them engaging!

Mrs. Lows 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

150 students impacted 6donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Six Crimson Cranes • Amazon Business $15.99 2 $31.98
White Smoke • Amazon Business $15.19 2 $30.38
Ace of Spades • Amazon Business $15.10 2 $30.20
Beasts of Prey • Amazon Business $14.77 2 $29.54
Take Me With You When You Go • Amazon Business $14.75 2 $29.50
The Six: A Dark Psychological Thriller • Amazon Business $14.49 2 $28.98
Both Sides Now • Amazon Business $14.48 2 $28.96
Huda F Are You? • Amazon Business $22.99 1 $22.99
Don't Ask Me Where I'm From • Amazon Business $11.49 2 $22.98
Allegedly • Amazon Business $10.99 2 $21.98
Dragon Hoops • Amazon Business $21.67 1 $21.67
Firekeeper's Daughter • Amazon Business $10.23 2 $20.46
The Witch Haven • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Allies: Real Talk About Showing Up, Screwing Up, And Trying Again • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Yolk • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Hello (From Here) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
As Good as Dead: The Finale to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder • Amazon Business $15.49 1 $15.49
Call Us What We Carry: Poems • Amazon Business $14.53 1 $14.53
Dark and Shallow Lies • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Concrete Rose • Amazon Business $13.98 1 $13.98
Blackout • Amazon Business $13.68 1 $13.68
The False Prince (The Ascendance Series, Book 1) • Amazon Business $6.79 2 $13.58
Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow Trilogy, 3) • Amazon Business $13.50 1 $13.50
Wayward Son (Simon Snow Trilogy, 2) • Amazon Business $13.34 1 $13.34
Frankly in Love • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Lobizona (Wolves of No World, 1) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Carry On (Simon Snow Trilogy, 1) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
We Set the Dark on Fire • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Graveyard Book • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, 1) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, 2) • Amazon Business $7.38 1 $7.38

Materials cost

$584.37

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $51.13

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.77

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$674.27

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$118.99

Total project goal

$793.26

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $793.26

5 Donors

-$637.85

Donations toward project cost

-$562.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$75.00

match offer

-$131.09

Match offer toward project cost

-$111.43

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.66

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$24.33

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