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Mrs. Cahill from Pueblo West, CO is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Realistic Fiction for Real Life Learning

Help me give my students a variety of diverse realistic fiction novels that get them excited about reading with young adult and tween literature.

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My Students

"It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." My students are choosing to read, but I we are always looking to push ourselves as readers and writers in our middle school English class.

My students are exposed and immersed to a lot of "classic literature" because of our required whole class novels studies, but we really need to also be staying relevant with current event and diverse literature that will enhance our learning in a different way.

I have a very hard working group of students, however some students come to me in seventh and eighth grade, and still haven't found the books that they connect to, and that can truly make them lifelong readers. Continuing to put new and diverse books in their hands is the perfect way to help them to continue to grow.

Many of these students have a desire and the motivation to read books, but the books that could really show them how powerful reading is aren't in our classroom library yet!

My Project

These books will be used to teach every single common core literature and informational standard. These students will be reading, sharing, critically thinking, and pushing themselves as readers. My students read many "classics" because of our curriculum, but I think it is equally as important that they read new, varied, and relevant books so ALL of my students can find book genres, characters, plots, and history that they can connect to.

These realistic fiction books will challenge my readers to share think critically and creatively, their thinking, challenge each other teach and learn from each other, and enrich their vocabulary.

By participating in realistic fiction book clubs, all my students will be exposed to the same literature genre, yet it still allow them to challenge themselves as individual readers.

All students will learn to be in a community of readers that truly think about and just love reading. Being exposed to the same genres of great literature is such a vital piece for us to create a whole community of lifelong readers, and these books are just the ticket for building that beautiful reading community.

Mrs. Cahill Swallows Charter Academy High School Grades 6-8

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Pueblo West, CO View local requests

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

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Flying Lessons & Other Stories • Amazon Business $16.31 1 $16.31
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Hello, Universe • Amazon Business $13.42 1 $13.42
Tight • Amazon Business $13.11 1 $13.11
The Benefits of Being an Octopus • Amazon Business $12.71 1 $12.71
Shouting at the Rain • Amazon Business $12.67 1 $12.67
The Bridge Home • Amazon Business $12.51 1 $12.51
The Season of Styx Malone • Amazon Business $11.72 1 $11.72
Tales of the Peculiar • Amazon Business $11.48 1 $11.48
Nowhere Boy • Amazon Business $10.93 1 $10.93
Ghost Boys • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
All American Boys • Amazon Business $9.73 1 $9.73
Blended • Amazon Business $9.17 1 $9.17
One for the Murphys • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Orbiting Jupiter • Amazon Business $8.94 1 $8.94
Fish in a Tree • Amazon Business $8.67 1 $8.67
Paper Things • Amazon Business $8.54 1 $8.54
To All the Boys I've Loved Before • Amazon Business $8.38 1 $8.38
Fresh Ink: An Anthology • Amazon Business $7.81 1 $7.81
Song for a Whale • Amazon Business $7.72 1 $7.72
Out of My Mind • Amazon Business $7.70 1 $7.70
No Fixed Address • Amazon Business $7.60 1 $7.60
Small as an Elephant • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Beyond the Bright Sea • Amazon Business $7.20 1 $7.20
Long Way Down • Amazon Business $6.70 1 $6.70
Front Desk (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $6.57 1 $6.57
The Only Road • Amazon Business $6.34 1 $6.34
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street (1) • Amazon Business $6.21 1 $6.21
Dear Martin • Amazon Business $4.64 1 $4.64
Ms. Bixby's Last Day • Amazon Business $3.93 1 $3.93

Materials cost

$280.86

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $17.98

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.21

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$333.05

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$58.77

Total project goal

$391.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $391.82

5 Donors

-$196.00

Donations toward project cost

-$166.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.40

match offer

-$195.82

Match offer toward project cost

-$166.45

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.37

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