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Mrs. Sykes from Fuquay Varina, NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Keep My Boys Reading with Boy-Friendly Books!

My students need boy-friendly books to keep them reading.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Sykes's classroom raised $181

This project is fully funded

My Students

"GROSS!" "Can you believe this?" "Teacher ... guess what I just learned?" These are the sounds I would love to hear coming from the mouths of my boy learners!

My 2nd grade students attend a suburban public school North Carolina with a 30% free and reduced price lunch rate.

I would love to see my boys engaged in their reading and growing as learners. Some of my students don't have books at home to help them explore on their own.

My Project

My students need boy-friendly books like Geronimo Stilton and the Grades 2-3 "Best for Boys" set with classic titles such as "How to Eat Fried Worms" and "The Chocolate Touch," and graphic novels about science like "The Heart: A Graphic Novel Tour" that will be of high-interest, and exciting to boys. Your donation to this project can help bring high-interest, exciting pieces of literature into my classroom to entice my boys to want to read and travel to other places ... all from the comfort of our classroom! These books will help introduce my boy readers to high-quality literature and help pave a way for a lifetime of reading!

Thank you for your interest in my classroom and my students, particularly my boys who are sometimes more reluctant to curl up with a good book.

Your donation to help us get these boy-friendly books and graphic novels will help arm my students with literacy skills they need to be successful in the future!

Mrs. Sykes Herbert Akins Road Elementary School Grades PreK-2 Fuquay Varina, NC View local requests 22 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Best for Boys - 2 - 3 • AKJ Books $50.79 1 $50.79
NEW! Daniel Boom AKA Loud Boy • AKJ Books $14.04 1 $14.04
The Discovery of America (Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novel Ser • AKJ Books $7.39 1 $7.39
The Secret of the Sphinx (Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novel Ser • AKJ Books $7.39 1 $7.39
The Coliseum Con (Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novel Series #3) • AKJ Books $7.39 1 $7.39
The Heart: A Graphic Novel Tour Joeming Dunn, Joeming W. Dun • AKJ Books $21.09 1 $21.09

Materials cost

$108.09

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$8.43

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.62

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$153.14

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$27.02

Total project goal

$180.16

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$180.16

3 Donors

-$155.16

Donations toward project cost

-$131.89

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.27

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

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$0.00

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