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Mrs. Steer from Toledo, OH is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Project Lit WHS Chapter: Hydrating the Book Desert

Help me give my students access to relevant and culturally diverse young adult books while promoting a love of reading, building a Project Lit community, and expanding past the single story.

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My Students

OUR students are wonderful young adults, but struggle with the war between apathy and curiosity. I teach English 11/English 12 in a diversely laid out urban/suburban community and my students range from traditional family structures to sleeping on relatives/friends couches.

Some students enter at the start of the year with weak writing/communication skills and a disconnection from the human experience but a dormant hunger for reading and drive to expand their capacity to learn, while others are so in love with reading that they can't stop and they just can't get their hands on enough books.

While their levels vary from not reading a full book since 6th grade to devouring 1-2 books a week, I have learned over the past year that most often don't have the time or money to visit the public library or buy their own books. The majority are not fans of e-books or digital reading and just want to have a real book in their hands. There is nothing more exciting then when they find a book that speaks to them. Hard copy books have been shelter during the storm of 20-21 and I want to keep that energy alive.

My Project

I have recently joined the ProjectLit community and our school is now officially a chapter member. I reestablished our book & social club since the closing of our campus library. This project will expand representation and diverse stories/characters for both my classroom library as well as our campus chapter/book club allowing 2,000+ students the gift of reading as well as books for monthly reading events.

I can not wait to open up my classroom library to the entire student body and get diverse books into the hands of our students.

Mrs. Steer Whitmer High School Grades 9-12

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Toledo, OH 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

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Firekeeper's Daughter • Amazon Business $10.23 2 $20.46
Permission to Dream • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Blood Like Magic • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Eat Your Heart Out • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Punching the Air • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Ace of Spades • Amazon Business $15.10 1 $15.10
Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Taking of Jake Livingston • Amazon Business $14.65 1 $14.65
Pumpkin (Dumplin') • Amazon Business $14.12 1 $14.12
Hey, Kiddo (National Book Award Finalist) • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Educated: A Memoir • Amazon Business $13.00 1 $13.00
I Am the Night Sky: ...& Other Reflections by Muslim American Youth (Shout Mouse Press Young Adult Books) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Dry • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
All the Things We Never Knew • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
All the Things We Never Knew • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Love from A to Z • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Solo (Blink) • Amazon Business $10.95 1 $10.95
Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orisha, 2) • Amazon Business $10.84 1 $10.84
Punching the Air • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
Grown • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
The Round House: A Novel • Amazon Business $10.09 1 $10.09
A Very Large Expanse of Sea • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Verona Comics • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Deathless Divide (Dread Nation) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Crown of Thunder • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Beasts Made of Night • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Parachutes • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Dear Justyce • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Anger Is a Gift: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.94 1 $9.94
Patron Saints of Nothing • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
You Should See Me in a Crown • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Sadie • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
American Royals • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Rebound (The Crossover Series) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Dumplin' (Dumplin', 1) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Puddin' (Dumplin', 2) • Amazon Business $8.48 1 $8.48
They Both Die at the End • Amazon Business $8.37 1 $8.37
Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, 1) • Amazon Business $7.83 1 $7.83
There There • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19

Materials cost

$462.85

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.94

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$499.79

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.20

Total project goal

$587.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $587.99

2 Donors

-$294.00

Donations toward project cost

-$249.90

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.10

match offer

-$293.99

Match offer toward project cost

-$249.89

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.10

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