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Ms. Ward from Grandville, MI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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March Book Madness!

Help me give my students engaging novels that are autographed by their writers!

  • $365 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Students come into our high school English classes craving connection and compassion. Although their home situations and experiences vary greatly, what connects our community of readers is the desire to find themselves, to find their truth, on the pages of a good book. Books can be mirrors or windows to the stories of our world. My goal is to connect my readers to the books they need.

A love for reading is built one story at a time.

Our high school students come from a wide variety of backgrounds, but what connects our community of nearly 1,800 students is a love of reading. Our district values reading choice and encourages independent reading at all levels, all grades. During the month of March, we want to celebrate our community of readers.

My Project

This will be my fifth year organizing a March Book Madness where students and staff vote throughout the month of March for their favorite stories. In a March Madness-style bracket, we invite our community of readers to share their favorite books and encourage reading in our community. But my favorite part of this monthly focus on reading is being able to give away signed copies of books! Each school day in March, we are hoping to give away signed books to those students and staff who participate in voting. I have been fortunate to connect with a number of authors using social media who have volunteered to sign copies of books or send signed bookplates. In past years, I've been able to give away signed books by Lois Lowry, S.E. Hinton, John Green, Rainbow Rowell, and so many more! However, many times I needed to cover the cost of shipping and/or the cost of the actual books. As you can imagine, this can get quite expensive.

This project will help cover the cost of the signed books to be given away to our community of readers during the month of March.

This project will help us share signed copies of Angie Thomas's newest novel, Nicola Yoon's The Sun is Also a Star, Neal Shusterman's newest released book titled Dry, and so many more!

Ms. Ward
Grades 9-12
  • Grandville High School
  • Grandville, MI
    • 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

    This project will reach 200 students.

    7 donors have given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Signed copies of the book This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp • Barnes and Noble $23.95 2 $47.90
Signed copy of The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon • Barnes and Noble $19.99 2 $39.98
Signed copy of Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen McManus • Barnes and Noble $16.99 2 $33.98
Signed copy of The Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi • Barnes and Noble $16.14 2 $32.28
Signed copies of Someday by David Levithan • Barnes and Noble $16.14 2 $32.28
Signed copies of Darius the Great is not Okay • Barnes and Noble $15.29 2 $30.58
Signed copy of Dry by Neal Shusterman • Barnes and Noble $15.19 2 $30.38
Signed copy of On the Come Up by Angie Thomas • Barnes and Noble $14.25 2 $28.50

Materials cost

$275.88

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.14

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$310.02

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$54.71

Total project goal

$364.73

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $364.73

4 Donors

-$292.00

Donations toward project cost

-$248.20

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.80

match offer

-$72.73

Match offer toward project cost

-$61.82

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$10.91

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 $0.00

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