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

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Masterpieces In the Middle School: Bringing Back Picture Books

Help me give my students more picture books in our middle school library.

  • $580 goal

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My Students

It is a pleasure being a middle school librarian! The almost 650 students who come through the library at any given time make it a delightful experience. They are "typical teens" in that they love to spend time with their friends, on their electronic devices and showing us adults how smart and independent they are growing each day. Helping them learn more about themselves and the world around them through books and online resources is truly rewarding!

I have learned to listen more, ask fewer questions and do whatever I can to meet my students' needs.

My Project

Take a picture--a picture book--that is, and let it make you smile

Reminisce about the feelings that you may not have had in a while

Remember the elation, the great sensations you uses to intimately know

The ones that you felt when reading as a young one

Oh, how your imagination did grow!

It was often the artwork-- the pictures--that primarily spoke to you as a child

The colors, the composition, the content... What imagery! Wow!

You may not have understood the words that were being read

So easily you were delighted as dinosaurs, dragons, people and places danced before your eyes and in your head

A foundation fortified with fundamentals like phonics and fluency and vocabulary was forming to make your intellect grow

Opinions about yourself and the world around you were being conceived

Your emotions-- anger-fear, joy-sadness, trust-distrust-- were starting to flow

In middle school, academic goals and benchmarks and other challenges are constantly trying to be met

We should let our childhood’s initial illustrated instructors know, “Hey! we’re not done with you yet!”

Let’s return to our roots, I say, reach out and reconnect with those times gone by and

Once again, give our precious picture books a try

That’s right! Picture books are not just for Pre-K students

They help readers of all abilities and ages create cross-cultural connections, initiate interdisciplinary inquiries and theorize thought-provoking themes

We have to get those visual and verbal narratives of painted pages back in the hands of our tweens

Ms. Martin Chute Middle School Grades 6-8

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

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.

More about Ms. Martin

Evanston, IL View local requests

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

647 students impacted 9donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Oliver Jeffers: The Working Mind and Drawing Hand • Amazon Business $37.53 1 $37.53
The Fate of Fausto: A Painted Fable • Amazon Business $17.51 1 $17.51
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver • Amazon Business $16.29 1 $16.29
E is for Eiffel Tower: A France Alphabet (Discover the World) • Amazon Business $16.23 1 $16.23
Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
I Go Quiet • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon • Amazon Business $14.80 1 $14.80
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop • Amazon Business $14.59 1 $14.59
Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse (Mouse Adventures) • Amazon Business $14.18 1 $14.18
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale (Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Children's Book Award (Awards)) • Amazon Business $13.81 1 $13.81
My Hair is a Garden • Amazon Business $13.80 1 $13.80
Edison: The Mystery of the Missing Mouse Treasure (Mouse Adventures) • Amazon Business $13.55 1 $13.55
The Feather • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician • Amazon Business $13.29 1 $13.29
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop (Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Maybe: A Story About the Endless Potential in All of Us • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
The Blacker the Berry (Ala Notable Children's Books. Middle Readers) • Amazon Business $12.84 1 $12.84
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Caldecott Honor Book) • Amazon Business $12.57 1 $12.57
Dreamers • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
Stars in the Shadows: The Negro League All-Star Game of 1934 • Amazon Business $12.21 1 $12.21
The Day the Crayons Came Home • Amazon Business $12.02 1 $12.02
T is for Taj Mahal: An India Alphabet (Discover the World) • Amazon Business $12.00 1 $12.00
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Cicada • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Commended) • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
Let the Children March • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
Nelson Mandela • Amazon Business $10.59 1 $10.59
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (Vashti Harrison) • Amazon Business $10.26 1 $10.26
Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon (Mouse Adventures) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Day the Crayons Quit • Amazon Business $9.19 1 $9.19

Materials cost

$455.42

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$492.25

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$86.87

Total project goal

$579.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $579.12

8 Donors

-$287.36

Donations toward project cost

-$248.01

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.35

match offer

-$287.34

Match offer toward project cost

-$244.24

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.10

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.42

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