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Ms. Longfellow from Urbandale, IA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Inspire the Creative Writer Within Us

Help me give my students excellent reading choices this fall to improve the reading enjoyment and comprehension.

  • 7 donors
  • $645 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Project

I am teaching high school creative writing and one of the most effective resources I can gift my students are current books with high engagement value so my students can read and enjoy excellent writing.

My students are bursting with creative writing ideas but need awesome models of what an excellent piece of writing looks like.

Students will be challenged to read several examples of high quality writing from several different sources, including fiction and well as non-fiction. This will help inspire and encourage these student to create their own pieces of writing so they can grow as mature and sophisticated authors themselves.

Ms. Longfellow
Grades 9-12
  • Urbandale High School
  • Urbandale, IA
    • More than a third 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

    This project will reach 300 students.

    7 donors have given to this project.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people • Amazon Business $23.99 1 $23.99
They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us • Amazon Business $22.71 1 $22.71
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era • Amazon Business $19.41 1 $19.41
Where You See Yourself • Amazon Business $17.89 1 $17.89
The Shadow and Bone Trilogy Boxed Set: Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, Ruin and Rising • Amazon Business $17.29 1 $17.29
Yellowface: A Reese's Book Club Pick • Amazon Business $16.95 1 $16.95
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial • Amazon Business $16.49 1 $16.49
We Deserve Monuments • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
If You Could See the Sun • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings • Amazon Business $13.95 1 $13.95
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy) • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World • Amazon Business $13.38 1 $13.38
Undead Truth of Us, The • Amazon Business $12.39 1 $12.39
Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, 2) • Amazon Business $12.04 1 $12.04
All Good People Here: A Novel • Amazon Business $12.00 1 $12.00
Divine Rivals: A Novel (Letters of Enchantment, 1) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
The Refugees • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed • Amazon Business $11.82 1 $11.82
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League • Amazon Business $11.51 1 $11.51
Don't Look Back: A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to America • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
Nothing More to Tell • Amazon Business $11.19 1 $11.19
Part of Your World • Amazon Business $11.04 1 $11.04
Promise Boys • Amazon Business $10.84 1 $10.84
One of the Good Ones (Inkyard Press / Harlequin Teen) • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Everything I Never Told You • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe • Amazon Business $10.32 1 $10.32
Killer Instinct (The Naturals, 2) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity • Amazon Business $9.62 1 $9.62
The Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
The Naturals (The Naturals, 1) • Amazon Business $9.34 1 $9.34
The Spite House: A Novel • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
We Are Not from Here • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
You'd Be Home Now • Amazon Business $8.85 1 $8.85
The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel (A Thursday Murder Club Mystery) • Amazon Business $8.52 1 $8.52
Breathe and Count Back from Ten • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe • Amazon Business $8.36 1 $8.36
Hollow Fires • Amazon Business $8.28 1 $8.28
Any Sign of Life • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Astonishing Color of After • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99

Materials cost

$478.23

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $32.76

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.17

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$548.16

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$96.73

Total project goal

$644.89

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $644.89

5 Donors

-$517.00

Donations toward project cost

-$444.45

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$72.55

match offer

-$122.01

Match offer toward project cost

-$103.71

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.30

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$5.88

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

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