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Mrs. Lyons from Philadelphia, PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Just Keep Reading

Help me give my students a break from their screens with relevant and engaging books!

  • $2,183 goal

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My Students

My students are creative and resilient young scholars who are dedicated to their education. They are hardworking and resilient! However, many of them come from low-income households and have taken on additional responsibilities as older siblings and work-aged teenagers.

Balancing these responsibilities with online learning has been challenging for many of our students but they have been rising to that challenge!

While students may struggle to make it to our daily classes do to other responsibilities or problems with access, they have been diligently and creatively engaging in learning from a distance.

My Project

My students are forced to stare at screens for most of the day due to the nature of online learning. While they are continuing to complete the work and do the digital reading I have been assigning them, we are all missing the comforting feel of a physical book and the ability to highlight and underline a text. We will be breaking into groups and reading Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give and Max Brooks's World War Z.

My students are begging for high-interest literature that they can annotate and that will keep them engaged in reading.

With these texts, I can keep my students learning and analyzing texts in a fun and relevant way.

Mrs. Lyons Constitution High School Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Philadelphia, PA View local requests

Nearly all 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

120 students impacted 21donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Hate U Give $13.99 75 $1,049.25
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War $9.99 75 $749.25

Materials cost

$1,798.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$26.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,855.48

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$327.44

Total project goal

$2,182.92

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $2,182.92

14 Donors

-$1,559.25

Donations toward project cost

-$1,336.62

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$222.63

match offer

-$610.42

Match offer toward project cost

-$518.86

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$91.56

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$13.24

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 $0.00

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