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Mrs. Hardwick-Ivey from Myrtle Beach, SC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Quit Stealing My Books!

The cost of forty-four books, including Tuesdays with Morrie, Twilight, and The Fellowship of the Ring is $517, including shipping and <a target="new" href="http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm" onclick="g_openWindow('http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm', 300, 800, 'fulfillwindow');return false;">fulfillment</a>.

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My careers-based school, which serves juniors and seniors, has a goal that all students will read at least ten books in their English courses and fifteen more in their other classes. My district requires that I teach one mandatory novel in each course. As with any title that comes from a list, not all of these books foster a life-long love of literature. Therefore, I want the other nine titles the students read to be ones they'll love. To help my students reach this goal, I offer self-selected reading (SSR). During almost every class period, I have a time when students get to read whatever book they'd like. They are not limited by my preferences, district lists, or canons. To help find books they'll enjoy, I purchase student-recommended books in my classroom library. Because my school has no library (!), the only books my students have available are the ones in my room. Every year, I purchase new books for the classroom. Every year, there are books that are "stolen." That is, students check them out and love them so much they don't want to return them, or they love them so much they are passed around to their friends and family… but they don't make the trek back to my room. While I realize that's a great problem to have, the "good books" in my room quickly disappear. By the second semester, I have students asking "Where have the good books gone?" To help alleviate this problem, I'd like another copy of the books that are frequently "stolen" from my class. I teach one hundred students who would love to get see more books in my room. I've offered SSR in my classes for eleven years now, and it is the most successful activity I offer. When former students bump into me at the mall or in restaurants, the one activity they consistently say they say helped them was self-selected reading. These students will recall what they read in my class, and then, they'll begin telling me what they're reading now. Several students have told me that they are readers today because they were offered SSR.

Mrs. Hardwick-Ivey Academy of Arts Science & Technical Grades 9-12

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Myrtle Beach, SC View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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
Keeping Faith Jodi Picoult • Barnes and Noble $12.55 1 $12.55
The Pact: A Love Story Jodi Picoult • Barnes and Noble $12.55 1 $12.55
Son of the Mob: Hollywood Hustle Gordon Korman • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Son of the Mob Gordon Korman • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother James McBride • Barnes and Noble $12.60 1 $12.60
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Ann Brashares • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Alchemist: A Fable about Following Your Dream Paulo Coelho, Alan R. Clarke (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $12.55 1 $12.55
Prophet Kahlil Gibran, Kahill Gibran, Aubrey Beardsley (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.05 1 $8.05
Black and Blue Anna Quindlen • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Sybil Flora Rheta Rhea Schreiber • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Rats Saw God Rob Thomas • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
A Child Called It Dave Pelzer • Barnes and Noble $10.75 1 $10.75
Speak Laurie Halse Halse Anderson • Barnes and Noble $9.00 1 $9.00
Demon in My View Amelia Atwater-Rhodes • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Lucky Alice Sebold • Barnes and Noble $10.75 1 $10.75
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky • Barnes and Noble $12.60 1 $12.60
Go Ask Alice Anonymous • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
The Return of the King (Movie Cover Art) J. R. R. Tolkien • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
The Two Towers (Movie Cover Art) J. R. R. Tolkien • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
The Fellowship of the Ring (Movie Art Cover) J. R. R. Tolkien, Foreword by J. R. Tolkien • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Blood and Chocolate Annette Curtis Klause • Barnes and Noble $5.85 1 $5.85
The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold • Barnes and Noble $6.75 1 $6.75
The Passion of Artemisia Susan Vreeland • Barnes and Noble $11.70 1 $11.70
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter: Appalachian Ballad Mystery Sharyn McCrumb • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
The Notebook Nicholas Sparks • Barnes and Noble $6.75 1 $6.75
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson Mitch Albom • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Pretties (Uglies Trilogy) Scott Westerfeld, Pelleteri Carissa • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Uglies (Uglies Trilogy) Scott Westerfeld, Designed by Rodrigo Corral • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Twilight Stephenie Meyer • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
The Truth About Forever Sarah Dessen • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Wave Todd Strasser, Morton Rhue, Foreword by Harriet Harvey Coffin • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Lion's Game Nelson DeMille • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Life of Pi Yann Martel • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Joanne Greenberg • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
What Happened to Lani Garver Carol Plum-Ucci • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
This Lullaby Sarah Dessen • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon • Barnes and Noble $11.65 1 $11.65
Ender's Game Orson Scott Card, Orson Scott Card (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Salem Falls Jodi Picoult • Barnes and Noble $13.50 1 $13.50
Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood Ann Brashares • Barnes and Noble $8.05 1 $8.05
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood Ann Brashares • Barnes and Noble $8.05 1 $8.05
Someone Like You Sarah Dessen • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19

Materials cost

$356.09

Vendor shipping charges

 $35.61

Sales tax

 $17.80

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.90

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$435.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$95.49

Total project goal

$530.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $530.49

16 Donors

-$490.00

Donations toward project cost

-$435.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$40.49

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