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Ms. Lorenz from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Lemony Snicket Has Hit Our Library. HELP!!!!!

My students need 1-2 copies of 10 books from the "A Series of Unfortunate Events" collection, by Lemony Snicket.

  • $256 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

I am a librarian at an elementary school that has a very high poverty rate. I have been a classroom teacher for 11 years, but this is my second year promoting literacy all day long! The children at my school are very diverse, coming from every great corner of our earth. I have all grades of children, from Kindergarten to grade 8, coming to check out books from the library.

A Series of Unfortunate Events books are very popular in our library. They have been read to death!!! We are now missing some of the books in the set and my students are BEGGING me for more!!! Unfortunately, we have no funding to purchase more.

I would like to complete the set of books that we have so that my readers can read the whole set through. I try to provide my students with the books they want to read, since it is very hard to compete with TV these days. When you have a student hooked on a book and/or series of books, you do all you can do to keep them hooked!

Please, please, please fund this project and complete our library's set of A Series of Unfortunate Events books. I and my students will thanks you SO MUCH!!!!

Ms. Lorenz Newton Bateman Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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

500 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bad Beginning: Book the First (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrator), Michael Kupperman (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $10.39 1 $10.39
Carnivorous Carnival: Book the Ninth (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrator), Michael Kupperman (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $10.39 2 $20.78
The Grim Grotto: Book the Eleventh (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrator), Michael Kupperman (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $10.39 1 $10.39
Beatrice Letters (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.99 2 $31.98
A Series of Unfortunate Events: Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography Lemony Snicket • Barnes and Noble $11.69 2 $23.38
The Wide Window: Book the Third (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrator), Michael Kupperman (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $10.39 2 $20.78
The Miserable Mill: Book the Fourth (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrator), Michael Kupperman (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $10.39 2 $20.78
The Hostile Hospital: Book the Eighth (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrator), Michael Kupperman (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $10.39 2 $20.78
The Ersatz Elevator: Book the Sixth (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrator), Michael Kupperman (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $10.39 1 $10.39
Austere Academy: Book the Fifth (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrator), Michael Kupperman (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $10.39 1 $10.39

Materials cost

$180.04

Vendor shipping charges

$18.00

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$209.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$46.04

Total project goal

$255.78

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$255.78

2 Donors

-$255.78

Donations toward project cost

-$209.76

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.02

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$0.00

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