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Mrs. Cruz from Houston, TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Inspiring Stories for Exceptional Learners

Help me give my students some new fiction and nonfiction texts to explore and study each week

  • $446 goal

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My Students

I work in an amazing community that was severely impacted by Hurricane Harvey. As we have healed and recovered from this catastrophic event our district has suffered deep budget cuts. I would love to have an additional reading/language arts curriculum resource and current fiction and nonfiction story books to use for our 2nd graders. I work at a Title 1 campus and the students we service have needs that span from special education to gifted and talented. Our budget for the upcoming school year does not have enough funds to purchase the books we need for a new reading program we are implementing that combines literature with nonfiction science and social studies text.

My Project

These books will bring both fiction and nonfiction text to life for our students. The illustrations and photographs will spark the minds of our visual learners, the text will help us learn new facts and explore creative storytelling.

The books go hand in hand with an amazing reading curriculum called Rooted in Reading that tackles a new story weekly incorporating vocabulary, a weekly skill, comprehension and grammar into fun hands on activities all centered around the book of the week.

The variety of titles that the students will be exposed to will appeal to all since there are many different genres throughout the year,

Mrs. Cruz Lovett Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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Houston, TX View local requests

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

125 students impacted 5donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad • Amazon Business $16.00 1 $16.00
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge (Public Television Storytime Books ( LIBRARY BINDING (HARDCOVER)) (Public Television Storytime Books (Paperback)) • Amazon Business $15.38 1 $15.38
Stellaluna 25th Anniversary Edition • Amazon Business $14.98 1 $14.98
Salt In His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve? • Amazon Business $14.20 1 $14.20
How to Catch Santa (How To...relationships) • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Each Kindness (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
I Need My Monster • Amazon Business $11.78 1 $11.78
The Three Little Javelinas (Reading Rainbow Book) • Amazon Business $11.16 1 $11.16
Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl's Baseball Dream • Amazon Business $10.95 1 $10.95
The Invisible Boy • Amazon Business $10.30 1 $10.30
Crankenstein • Amazon Business $9.88 1 $9.88
Looking at Lincoln • Amazon Business $8.17 1 $8.17
Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
A Visitor for Bear (Bear and Mouse) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
That's What Leprechauns Do • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday • Amazon Business $7.98 1 $7.98
Stone Soup (Aladdin Picture Books) • Amazon Business $7.98 1 $7.98
Snow Day! • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
The Rough-Face Girl • Amazon Business $7.81 1 $7.81
The Salamander Room (Dragonfly Books) • Amazon Business $7.81 1 $7.81
Akiak: A Tale From the Iditarod • Amazon Business $7.81 1 $7.81
Miss Rumphius • Amazon Business $7.81 1 $7.81
Spiders • Amazon Business $7.81 1 $7.81
Me . . . Jane • Amazon Business $7.60 1 $7.60
Chester's Way • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
Fireflies • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Library Lion • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Sheila Rae, the Brave • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Legend of the Poinsettia • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Edward the Emu • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Koala Lou • Amazon Business $6.85 1 $6.85
When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon Business $6.74 1 $6.74
Night Tree • Amazon Business $6.45 1 $6.45
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch (paperback) • Amazon Business $6.30 1 $6.30
Those Shoes • Amazon Business $6.24 1 $6.24
Turk and Runt: A Thanksgiving Comedy • Amazon Business $6.23 1 $6.23
National Geographic Readers: Sharks! (Science Reader Level 2) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$343.93

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.16

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$379.09

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$66.90

Total project goal

$445.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $445.99

3 Donors

-$295.99

Donations toward project cost

-$251.59

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.40

Matching donations from our partners

-$150.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$127.50

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.50

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