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Ms. Patejdl from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Lit is Lit: Hot Independent Reading Books Needed!

My students need best-selling, high-interest, diverse independent reading books to broaden the scope of their reading lives.

  • $662 goal

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My Students

My 8th and 11th graders are amazing! My students - all girls - are striving to be leaders in their own lives, families, and communities. Many will be the first in their families to attend college. Our school's mission is to have 100% of our students graduate from high school and be successful at a 4-year college or university. Additionally, we work to establish a sisterhood of women ready to become leaders of the future in all career fields. This cannot be possible without making learning relevant to our students' passions and goals and giving them the tools to broaden their worlds.

My Project

A strong culture of independent reading in a classroom engages kids and helps them grow their interests, knowledge of the world, independence as learners, and reading levels. But that can only happen when there is a wide variety of high-interest, in-demand books populating a classroom library. We also need enough of them to go around.

In my classroom, we need more independent reading books to replenish our classroom library.

Throughout all of last year, excited students requested a variety of titles and genres of books, but specifically more thrillers and dystopian fiction. They also requested more current and interesting non-fiction books to read. This list of books would help our classroom library meet the needs and interests of those readers, and draw in more reluctant readers toward building their reading lives.

Ms. Patejdl Young Women's Ldrshp School - Bklyn Grades 6-8

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than three‑quarters 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

100 students impacted 16donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Sun and Her Flowers • Amazon Business $12.74 2 $25.48
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • Amazon Business $12.59 2 $25.18
The Hate U Give • Amazon Business $11.39 2 $22.78
Red Queen 2-Book Hardcover Box Set: Red Queen and Glass Sword • Amazon Business $21.46 1 $21.46
The Anonymous Diary Collection: Lucy in the Sky; Letting Ana Go; The Book of David • Amazon Business $19.20 1 $19.20
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy • Amazon Business $18.03 1 $18.03
Educated: A Memoir • Amazon Business $16.80 1 $16.80
A Piece of Cake: A Memoir • Amazon Business $7.68 2 $15.36
I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons • Amazon Business $14.05 1 $14.05
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution • Amazon Business $13.67 1 $13.67
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets • Amazon Business $13.63 1 $13.63
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar • Amazon Business $6.75 2 $13.50
It: A Novel • Amazon Business $13.09 1 $13.09
The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir • Amazon Business $12.70 1 $12.70
One of Us Is Lying • Amazon Business $12.52 1 $12.52
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife • Amazon Business $12.31 1 $12.31
Dark Places • Amazon Business $11.46 1 $11.46
If I Was Your Girl • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Story of a New Name: Neapolitan Novels, Book Two • Amazon Business $10.72 1 $10.72
Big Little Lies • Amazon Business $10.64 1 $10.64
My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One • Amazon Business $10.53 1 $10.53
Catacomb (Asylum) • Amazon Business $10.31 1 $10.31
Escape from Aleppo • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women • Amazon Business $9.92 1 $9.92
Piecing Me Together • Amazon Business $9.88 1 $9.88
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain • Amazon Business $9.75 1 $9.75
Eleanor & Park • Amazon Business $9.71 1 $9.71
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World • Amazon Business $9.39 1 $9.39
Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy) • Amazon Business $9.16 1 $9.16
How I Live Now • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Sharp Objects • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Asylum • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Milk and Honey • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Cut • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
The Stand • Amazon Business $8.46 1 $8.46
The Twisted Ones (Five Nights at Freddy's #2) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Education of Margot Sanchez • Amazon Business $7.55 1 $7.55
Requiem (Delirium Trilogy) • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
To Catch a Killer: A Novel (Erin Blake) • Amazon Business $7.40 1 $7.40
Delirium (Delirium Trilogy) • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
The Shining • Amazon Business $6.26 1 $6.26
The Silver Eyes (Five Nights At Freddy's #1) • Amazon Business $6.17 1 $6.17
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95
Sanctum (Asylum) • Amazon Business $4.19 1 $4.19

Materials cost

$524.08

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$561.94

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$99.17

Total project goal

$661.11

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $661.11

14 Donors

-$626.11

Donations toward project cost

-$532.19

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$93.92

match offer

-$35.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$29.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.25

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