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Ms. Pignataro from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Students Speak!

My students need books - sequels to series and nonfiction at their request.

  • $325 goal

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My Students

You can never have enough books. That's why, I've let the students speak.

I asked; they answered.

My eighth graders have compiled a list of books and types of books that they'd like to see in the classroom library. While we have an pretty good selection of books, one of the things we are lacking is more recent additions to series books. Series books are very popular, but the fault with them is that if the series isn't over, there are new books coming out that need to be purchased to complete the set (and the story). This list meets the demand for sequels.

My Project

There's also a big push for students to read nonfiction. While I received some student recommendations for nonfiction, I also chose books that will pique the interests of the students. By having a wider selection of nonfiction in the classroom, I can meet the demands of the students who are both interested in reading it as well as the students who need practice reading nonfiction with books that are accessible to them.

Donations to this project will keep our classroom library stocked with recent titles in series that the students are asking for.

It will also introduce to the classroom a variety of nonfiction titles of various levels in order to promote reading in this genre.

Ms. Pignataro MS 443 New Voices School Grades 6-8

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Brooklyn, NY 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

60 students impacted 5donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them • Amazon $15.19 1 $15.19
Fire & Ash (Rot & Ruin) • Amazon $14.94 1 $14.94
Rapture (Fallen) • Amazon $14.69 1 $14.69
UnDivided (Unwind Dystology) • Amazon $14.54 1 $14.54
Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert • Amazon $12.95 1 $12.95
Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them • Amazon $11.66 1 $11.66
My Anxious Mind: A Teen's Guide to Managing Anxiety and Panic • Amazon $11.44 1 $11.44
The Heroes of Olympus Book Five: The Blood of Olympus • Amazon $11.35 1 $11.35
The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus, Book 4) • Amazon $11.25 1 $11.25
Into the Wild • Amazon $10.73 1 $10.73
Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It • Amazon $10.49 1 $10.49
UnSouled (Unwind Dystology) • Amazon $10.44 1 $10.44
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls • Amazon $10.30 1 $10.30
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal • Amazon $10.09 1 $10.09
In Cold Blood • Amazon $10.09 1 $10.09
Passion (Fallen, Book 3) • Amazon $9.88 1 $9.88
Sisters in Sanity • Amazon $8.99 1 $8.99
Dust & Decay (Rot & Ruin) • Amazon $8.99 1 $8.99
Flesh & Bone (Rot & Ruin) • Amazon $8.99 1 $8.99
Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food • Amazon $8.99 1 $8.99
How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous • Amazon $8.13 1 $8.13
Fallen in Love: A Fallen Novel in Stories • Amazon $8.09 1 $8.09

Materials cost

$242.21

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.63

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$275.84

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$48.68

Total project goal

$324.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $324.52

3 Donors

-$274.52

Donations toward project cost

-$233.34

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.18

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

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 $0.00

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