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Mrs. Drake from Smithfield, VA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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New Year, New Books

Help me give my students some fresh, new titles to stock our library for the new year!

  • $429 goal

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Mrs. Drake has another project! Donate to Novels in Verse to Visualize Poetry vs. Prose to help her classroom.

$631 - complete this project and be a hero
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Mrs. Drake has another project! Donate to Novels in Verse to Visualize Poetry vs. Prose to help her classroom.

$631 - complete this project and be a hero

My Project

This school year I have been lucky enough to have some eager readers sitting in my classroom. I have enabled an incentives system coined "Reading Bingo" where my students compete with their class to read the most books. The class with the most completed Bingos at the end of the nine weeks, gets to spin the wheel for a prize! I have seen success like never before with students reading all different types of genres. Although I am so overjoyed that my students are enjoying the competition, I am in dire need of a few books to complete my students' goals. One of my squares on my Bingo sheet is to "Complete a Series" and a few of my students are unable to do that with some missing titles.

This project would enable my students to complete their goal of finishing a whole series!

I can't believe I now have students who want to read THAT much! Thank you for any amount given and know that you are helping students fulfill their goals!

Mrs. Drake Smithfield Middle School Grades 6-8

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Smithfield, VA View local requests

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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Wings of Fire 12 Books Set (Books 1-12) + Wings of Fire Legends ( 2 Books Set) Exclusive Collection Total 14 Books • Amazon Business $116.50 1 $116.50
Olympians Boxed Set Books 7-12: Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Hephaistos, and Dionysos • Amazon Business $49.58 1 $49.58
Furinno Pasir 3-Tier Open Shelf Bookcase, Americano • Amazon Business $25.30 1 $25.30
The City of Ember Complete Boxed Set (The City of Ember; The People of Sparks; The Diamond of Darkhold; The Prophet of Yonwood) • Amazon Business $20.99 1 $20.99
Hidden Pictures: A Novel • Amazon Business $17.63 1 $17.63
The Red Bandanna: A Life. A Choice. A Legacy. • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Legend: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Champion: The Graphic Novel (Legend) • Amazon Business $14.59 1 $14.59
The Man in the Red Bandanna • Amazon Business $13.95 1 $13.95
Olympians: Hades: Lord of the Dead • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Prodigy: The Graphic Novel (Legend) • Amazon Business $12.69 1 $12.69
The Magic Fish: (A Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $12.39 1 $12.39

Materials cost

$329.59

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.94

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$364.53

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$64.33

Total project goal

$428.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$428.86

1 Donor

-$287.00

Donations toward project cost

-$243.95

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.05

match offer

-$141.86

Match offer toward project cost

-$120.58

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.28

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$0.00

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