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Dr. Deaver from Columbia, SC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading Can Change the World!

My students need 45 books to improve literacy including Children of the Great Depression, A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story, and Locomotive.

  • $541 goal

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My Students

Many of my students struggle to comprehend what is written in textbooks. They crave books that will help them understand what is being taught in the classroom.

I teach fifth grade in a low income school.

We have a high population of ESOL, LD self-contained, and resource students. I have students who have the desire to read but not the materials. Many times my students come to me with very little reading experience, outside of school.

My Project

My students would be able to use these books in class or at home to help increase their comprehension of difficult content. These books will be used for independent reading, shared reading, and guided reading. Students will be emerged into informational, historical, and scientific texts.

These books will be used to spark an interest in reading and encourage these students to become lifelong readers!

Who knows, maybe one of these books will inspire one of my students to change the world around them!

Dr. Deaver Windsor Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Columbia, SC 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

40 students impacted 12donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1924 (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards)) • Amazon $15.87 1 $15.87
Francis and Eddie: The True Story of America's Underdogs • Amazon $15.34 1 $15.34
At Ellis Island: A History in Many Voices • Amazon $15.04 1 $15.04
Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain • Amazon $14.04 1 $14.04
Hey Batta Batta Swing!: The Wild Old Days of Baseball • Amazon $13.96 1 $13.96
Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal • Amazon $13.86 1 $13.86
If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People, 2nd Edition (CitizenKid) • Amazon $13.64 1 $13.64
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever • Amazon $13.23 1 $13.23
Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me • Amazon $12.58 1 $12.58
The Industrial Revolution for Kids: The People and Technology That Changed the World, with 21 Activities (For Kids series) • Amazon $11.43 1 $11.43
The Day the Crayons Quit • Amazon $10.78 1 $10.78
Wild Tracks!: A Guide to Nature's Footprints • Amazon $10.76 1 $10.76
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy • Amazon $10.18 1 $10.18
Locomotive (Caldecott Medal Book) • Amazon $10.14 1 $10.14
Children of the Great Depression • Amazon $9.39 1 $9.39
Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl • Amazon $8.99 1 $8.99
Candy Bomber • Amazon $8.95 1 $8.95
Ten Mile Day: And the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad • Amazon $8.80 1 $8.80
Kids On Strike! • Amazon $8.78 1 $8.78
Where Poppies Grow: A World War I Companion • Amazon $8.78 1 $8.78
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 • Amazon $8.78 1 $8.78
Liberty!: How the Revolutionary War Began (Landmark Books) • Amazon $8.09 1 $8.09
Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp • Amazon $7.91 1 $7.91
Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin • Amazon $7.19 1 $7.19
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest • Amazon $7.19 1 $7.19
If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks • Amazon $7.19 1 $7.19
Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote • Amazon $7.19 1 $7.19
Why Should I Recycle? (Why Should I? Books) • Amazon $7.19 1 $7.19
Potato: A Tale From The Great Depression • Amazon $7.15 1 $7.15
They're Off! : The Story of the Pony Express • Amazon $6.91 1 $6.91
Why Should I Save Energy? (Why Should I? Books) • Amazon $6.29 1 $6.29
The Silk Route: 7,000 Miles of History • Amazon $6.29 1 $6.29
Why Should I Save Water? (Why Should I? Books) • Amazon $6.29 1 $6.29
Until the Last Spike, the Journal of Sean Sullivan, a Transcontinental Railroad Worker, Nebraska and Points West, 1867 (My Name Is America) • Amazon $6.29 1 $6.29
Ellis Island: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: History) • Amazon $6.25 1 $6.25
The Great Depression: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: Historical Eras) • Amazon $6.25 1 $6.25
An Illustrated Timeline of Inventions and Inventors (Visual Timelines in History) • Amazon $6.25 1 $6.25
World War II Spies: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: World War II) • Amazon $6.25 1 $6.25
The Attack on Pearl Harbor: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: History) • Amazon $6.25 1 $6.25
If Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island • Amazon $5.71 1 $5.71
America in World War II: A History Just for Kids! • Amazon $5.39 1 $5.39
The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle: And Other Surprising Stories about Inventions • Amazon $5.39 1 $5.39
What Was Ellis Island? • Amazon $5.39 1 $5.39
Mush! The Sled Dogs of the Iditarod • Amazon $4.08 1 $4.08
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story • Amazon $3.91 1 $3.91

Materials cost

$395.61

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $27.89

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.93

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$459.43

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$81.08

Total project goal

$540.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $540.51

9 Donors

-$268.48

Donations toward project cost

-$229.71

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$38.77

match offer

-$270.26

Match offer toward project cost

-$229.72

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.54

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.77

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