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Mr. Veazey from Baton Rouge, LA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Operation Empty Shelves Redux

My students need - and deserve - a library filled with books of varied genres, levels, and topics.

  • $1,716 goal

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My Students

The kids that come into my library are survivors. My students are PreK to Grade 5 and mostly come from low-income areas, but their hunger for knowledge is real.

The Louisiana Flood of 2016 may have washed away their belongings, but it has not diminished their spirits.

These kids are true learners, and they deserve every opportunity to achieve greatness.

Good hearts, capable minds, eyes open wide - my students have all of these. All they need is a chance to put them to use.

My Project

We're back! After the Louisiana Flood of 2016, I returned to my school library to check it out after being under water. The books were gone. I would have no chance to save titles on higher shelves such as my signed edition of Dear Hank Williams from when Kimberly Willis Holt visited my school, or a brand new copy of Counting Thyme that I bought for the library after tearing through it on the beach this past summer, or all of the graphic novels I’d spent the last year collecting because my students couldn’t get enough of El Deafo, The Dumbest Idea Ever!, Roller Girl, and Sunny Side Up. I don’t want to talk about the ones that I haven’t even gotten to read yet like The Seventh Wish or Jack & Louisa: Act 2.

I tried to tell myself that they were “only books,” but anyone who has ever loved a book knows that there is no such thing as “only books.” Why am I reminiscing about every wonderful book that comes to mind?

The answer is simple. I need help.

Our school is relocating. We’ve been ushered over to a building that was built in 1937. That means my new school is the same age as "And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street." It also means that, in my first year as a librarian, I have a library without any books.

Access to books is the key to educational success. Our library doesn’t have books. Our classrooms don’t have books. Many of the homes of our students don’t have books. Like the tears that rolled down our faces both in silent and violent measures, they became a part of the flood before being swept away as we looked toward rebuilding and recovery.

Mr. Veazey Glen Oaks Park Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Baton Rouge, LA View local requests

Nearly all 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

505 students impacted 26donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
March: Book One (Oversized Hardcover Edition) • Amazon Business $23.66 1 $23.66
The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A with 50 fact-filled maps! • Amazon Business $20.40 1 $20.40
March: Book Two • Amazon Business $19.95 1 $19.95
When the Sea Turned to Silver • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Judy Blume's Fudge Box Set • Amazon Business $18.72 1 $18.72
If You Come Softly (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) • Amazon Business $18.40 1 $18.40
Hurricane • Amazon Business $18.00 1 $18.00
Deenie • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Blubber (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) • Amazon Business $17.20 1 $17.20
The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Hate That Cat: A Novel • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. • Amazon Business $16.98 1 $16.98
Tiger Eyes • Amazon Business $16.58 1 $16.58
This One Summer • Amazon Business $16.57 1 $16.57
It's Not the End of the World • Amazon Business $16.52 1 $16.52
Iggie's House • Amazon Business $16.30 1 $16.30
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself • Amazon Business $16.22 1 $16.22
The Pain And The Great One (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) • Amazon Business $16.00 1 $16.00
Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France • Amazon Business $15.66 1 $15.66
Mr. Popper's Penguins (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) • Amazon Business $15.46 1 $15.46
Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White • Amazon Business $15.38 1 $15.38
I Will Chomp You! • Amazon Business $15.32 1 $15.32
Tuesday (Caldecott Medal Book) • Amazon Business $15.09 1 $15.09
March: Book Three • Amazon Business $14.72 1 $14.72
Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower • Amazon Business $14.70 1 $14.70
What Do You Do With an Idea? • Amazon Business $14.58 1 $14.58
Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay • Amazon Business $14.47 1 $14.47
My Teacher Is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.) • Amazon Business $14.25 1 $14.25
The Three Pigs • Amazon Business $14.17 1 $14.17
Maniac Magee (Newbery Medal Book) • Amazon Business $14.12 1 $14.12
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition • Amazon Business $14.00 1 $14.00
Tuck Everlasting • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Owl Moon • Amazon Business $13.88 1 $13.88
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark • Amazon Business $13.88 1 $13.88
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
Art & Max • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Nanette's Baguette • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Some Girls Are Born to Lead • Amazon Business $13.36 1 $13.36
The Whisper • Amazon Business $13.26 1 $13.26
Where the Wild Things Are • Amazon Business $13.14 1 $13.14
The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art • Amazon Business $13.13 1 $13.13
Harold and the Purple Crayon • Amazon Business $12.87 1 $12.87
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus • Amazon Business $12.87 1 $12.87
The Princess and the Pony • Amazon Business $12.85 1 $12.85
Dragon Was Terrible • Amazon Business $12.74 1 $12.74
Goodnight Already! • Amazon Business $12.60 1 $12.60
Snappsy the Alligator (Did Not Ask to Be in This Book) • Amazon Business $12.60 1 $12.60
This Is Sadie • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
The Little Island • Amazon Business $12.56 1 $12.56
The Curious Garden • Amazon Business $12.46 1 $12.46
A Sick Day for Amos McGee • Amazon Business $12.42 1 $12.42
Hillary • Amazon Business $12.20 1 $12.20
The Bear Ate Your Sandwich • Amazon Business $12.15 1 $12.15
Quit Calling Me a Monster! • Amazon Business $12.11 1 $12.11
Leo: A Ghost Story • Amazon Business $12.10 1 $12.10
Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch • Amazon Business $11.91 1 $11.91
Freckle Juice • Amazon Business $11.91 1 $11.91
The Magician's Elephant • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Me . . . Jane • Amazon Business $11.83 1 $11.83
Tell Me a Tattoo Story • Amazon Business $11.76 1 $11.76
The Book with No Pictures • Amazon Business $11.68 1 $11.68
My Dad Used to Be So Cool • Amazon Business $11.66 1 $11.66
The Little Prince • Amazon Business $11.59 1 $11.59
Love That Dog • Amazon Business $11.53 1 $11.53
Henry's Bright Idea (The Walnut Animal Society) • Amazon Business $11.52 1 $11.52
Doll Bones • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
Extra Yarn • Amazon Business $11.31 1 $11.31
Sew Fab: Sewing and Style for Young Fashionistas • Amazon Business $11.29 1 $11.29
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings • Amazon Business $11.19 1 $11.19
Flotsam • Amazon Business $11.04 1 $11.04
Flotsam • Amazon Business $11.04 1 $11.04
Mr. Wuffles! (Caldecott Medal - Honors Winning Title(s)) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
They All Saw a Cat • Amazon Business $10.78 1 $10.78
Kitten's First Full Moon • Amazon Business $10.69 1 $10.69
I Want My Hat Back • Amazon Business $10.63 1 $10.63
Journey • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild (Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (Awards)) • Amazon Business $10.47 1 $10.47
The Wild Robot • Amazon Business $10.36 1 $10.36
The Odd One Out • Amazon Business $10.11 1 $10.11
365 Days of Wonder: Mr. Browne's Precepts • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Mercy Watson: Princess in Disguise • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Wonder • Amazon Business $9.75 1 $9.75
Full of Beans • Amazon Business $9.65 1 $9.65
Wish • Amazon Business $9.65 1 $9.65
The Girl Who Drank the Moon • Amazon Business $9.63 1 $9.63
Press Here • Amazon Business $9.09 1 $9.09
This Is Not My Hat • Amazon Business $9.01 1 $9.01
The Story of Diva and Flea • Amazon Business $8.92 1 $8.92
The Terrible Two • Amazon Business $8.51 1 $8.51
Where Are You Going, Baby Lincoln?: Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume Three • Amazon Business $8.51 1 $8.51
The Terrible Two Go Wild • Amazon Business $8.08 1 $8.08
Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! The Cookie Fiasco • Amazon Business $6.55 1 $6.55
Ghosts • Amazon Business $6.55 1 $6.55
Pippi Longstocking • Amazon Business $6.07 1 $6.07
The Terrible Two Get Worse • Amazon Business $5.90 1 $5.90
All My Friends Are Dead • Amazon Business $5.17 1 $5.17

Materials cost

$1,295.75

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $113.38

3rd party payment processing fee

$19.44

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,458.57

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$257.39

Total project goal

$1,715.96

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,715.96

12 Donors

-$1,487.14

Donations toward project cost

-$1,348.07

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$139.07

match offer

-$130.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$110.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$98.82

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