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Ms. Laster from Philadelphia, PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Spark the Joy of Reading!

Help me give my students independent reading choices! Many of these books were specifically selected by my students because they WANT to read them.

  • $815 goal

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My Project

Getting to choose your own book to read is the best way to spark joy when it comes to reading. Many of my students' only experience with reading are the required books and passages they read for a grade. They haven't had the opportunity to choose what they WANT to read, until now. These are the books my classes have hand selected.

These books represent the cultures and identities present within my room.

I want my students to see themselves in the literature, connect with it, and know they have the strength to achieve anything.

Ms. Laster South Philadelphia High School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Philadelphia, PA 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

100 students impacted 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth / Cabin Fever / The Third Wheel / Hard Luck, No. 5-8 • Amazon Business $43.19 1 $43.19
Minecraft: Guide Collection 4-Book Boxed Set: Exploration; Creative; Redstone; The Nether & the End • Amazon Business $31.98 1 $31.98
Secret Wars • Amazon Business $23.91 1 $23.91
The Captain Underpants Color Collection (Captain Underpants #1-3 Boxed Set) • Amazon Business $23.75 1 $23.75
Beauty and the Beast Novelization (Disney) • Amazon Business $19.38 1 $19.38
The Ones We Burn • Amazon Business $17.59 1 $17.59
Snowmen at Night • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
How to Manage Your SOCIAL POWER in Middle School: Kid Confident Book 1 (Kid Confident: Middle Grade Shelf Help) • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
SLAY • Amazon Business $16.98 1 $16.98
I Am Alfonso Jones • Amazon Business $16.95 1 $16.95
Thirteen Reasons Why • Amazon Business $8.39 2 $16.78
Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster • Amazon Business $16.29 1 $16.29
Hollow Fires • Amazon Business $16.26 1 $16.26
Hey, Brown Girl • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
call me him.: a transgender coming-of-age story • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Girl on Fire • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Dragon Hoops • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Junie B. Jones's Third Boxed Set Ever! (Books 9-12) • Amazon Business $13.72 1 $13.72
Concrete Rose • Amazon Business $13.53 1 $13.53
Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
The Hate U Give • Amazon Business $12.98 1 $12.98
Badass Black Girl: Quotes, Questions, and Affirmations for Teens (Gift for teenage girl) • Amazon Business $12.05 1 $12.05
Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood • Amazon Business $11.88 1 $11.88
With the Fire on High • Amazon Business $11.85 1 $11.85
Clap When You Land • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
More Than Just a Pretty Face • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Odd 1s Out: How to Be Cool and Other Things I Definitely Learned from Growing Up • Amazon Business $10.77 1 $10.77
How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe • Amazon Business $10.39 1 $10.39
Dragon Ball Super, Vol. 12 (12) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Watch Us Rise • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Cinderella Is Dead • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
How We Fall Apart • Amazon Business $9.96 1 $9.96
On The Come Up • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
The Gravity of Us • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Engines! How Do Car Engines Work - Cars for Kids Edition - Children's Cars, Trains & Things That Go Books • Amazon Business $9.43 1 $9.43
Dumplin' (Dumplin', 1) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Odd 1s Out: The First Sequel • Amazon Business $8.98 1 $8.98
Dear Justyce • Amazon Business $8.64 1 $8.64
Escape Room (Underlined Paperbacks) • Amazon Business $7.98 1 $7.98
The Downstairs Girl • Amazon Business $7.79 1 $7.79
1984 • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
The Lorax (Classic Seuss) • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
The House on Mango Street • Amazon Business $7.28 1 $7.28
Jazmin's Notebook • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Dear Martin • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
Diary of a Minecraft Zombie Book 2: Bullies and Buddies • Amazon Business $6.71 1 $6.71
Dear Black Girl: Equip, Empower, Enlighten • Amazon Business $6.13 1 $6.13
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • Amazon Business $5.91 1 $5.91
Diary of a Minecraft Zombie Book 1: A Scare of A Dare • Amazon Business $5.71 1 $5.71

Materials cost

$652.48

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.79

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$692.27

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$122.17

Total project goal

$814.44

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $814.44

7 Donors

-$798.26

Donations toward project cost

-$692.27

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$105.99

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$16.18

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