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Mrs. Agostino from Danville, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Hot List: New Titles for Our Classroom Library

Help me give my students exciting new books for our classroom library. The newest from Jason Reynolds, Margaret Atwood and David Yoon will be flying off my shelves.

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My Students

In our high performing community, our students "do school," and care greatly about getting good grades, but often miss out on meaningful learning in the process. More specifically, many of them have lost their love of reading. They view reading as a boring chore, one that they do begrudgingly, or even worse, don't do at all.

My students crave choice and independence in their learning.

I believe they need more choice in what they read and study, to entice them to be lifelong readers and learners. Also, as in any classroom, I have a huge range of reading abilities. By giving them choice, I can better differentiate instruction and use reading conferences to make sure each student has a book that works for him or her.

My Project

I believe students will read more if they are given choice in what they read. My classroom library has been steadily growing over the past few years, but there are always new, enticing young adult and adult titles coming out. This grant will help build my classroom library by adding more high interest texts from some of today's most popular authors.

These books will allow students to build their own content and make reading more exciting for them.

This will, in turn, entice more students to read, especially my more reluctant readers. Once the students are interested in reading and are confident in their increasing abilities, then they can challenge themselves to increase the text complexity and to read more each week.

I believe we need to trust these young adults more. We need to trust them to take responsibility for their own learning so that they have more of a stake in their learning outcomes. This will empower them to keep reading beyond the four walls of my classroom.

Mrs. Agostino San Ramon Valley High School Grades 9-12

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Danville, CA View local requests 165 students impacted 9donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer) • Amazon Business $17.49 1 $17.49
The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale • Amazon Business $17.37 1 $17.37
Know My Name: A Memoir • Amazon Business $16.80 1 $16.80
Parkland: Birth of a Movement • Amazon Business $16.23 1 $16.23
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Speak: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees • Amazon Business $15.64 1 $15.64
Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds • Amazon Business $15.39 1 $15.39
The Grace Year • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Five Dark Fates (Three Dark Crowns) • Amazon Business $13.29 1 $13.29
Pretty Girls Dancing • Amazon Business $13.12 1 $13.12
The Fountains of Silence • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Strange the Dreamer • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
Swing (Blink) • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air) • Amazon Business $12.19 1 $12.19
Wayward Son (Simon Snow Series) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Frankly in Love • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
You Owe Me a Murder • Amazon Business $11.68 1 $11.68
Wilder Girls • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
5 to 1 • Amazon Business $11.09 1 $11.09
The Opposite of Here • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Opposite of Always • Amazon Business $10.87 1 $10.87
Wildcard (Warcross) • Amazon Business $10.50 1 $10.50
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air) • Amazon Business $10.39 1 $10.39
The Education of Margot Sanchez • Amazon Business $10.19 1 $10.19
With Malice • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
To Kill a Kingdom • Amazon Business $9.73 1 $9.73
Behind Closed Doors: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.59 1 $9.59
With the Fire on High • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Warcross • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
We Are All Made of Molecules • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Saints and Misfits • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Ash Princess • Amazon Business $6.59 1 $6.59

Materials cost

$428.08

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $39.17

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.42

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$503.67

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.88

Total project goal

$592.55

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $592.55

8 Donors

-$567.53

Donations toward project cost

-$503.67

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.86

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$25.02

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