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Mrs. Robb from Portland, OR is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Today's Readers Are Tomorrow's Leaders

My students need a classroom collection of 62 non-fiction books across all subject areas, including selection from the Time For Kids series and the DK Readers series.

  • $544 goal

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We are a first grade classroom in a high-needs, urban, high ELL population school. We have few monetary resources available.

The students in my room crave books to read. However, the district provides few books for classroom libraries, and checking out one book a week from the school library is insufficient for children. My students also have few books at home, and few have transportation to visit city libraries, so the availability of books and time to read them in the classroom is critical. In particular, first grade students need exposure to non-fiction books. By 5th grade, 80% of what students read is non-fiction, so we need to expose young readers to the format of non-fiction at an early age. Not to mention that kids love books about spiders, dinosaurs, outer-space, volcanoes, and anything real!

We need a non-fiction classroom library so students can have access to books at their early reading level spanning many subject areas.

You will make it possible for my students to have beautiful, high quality, readable, non-fiction books available to them every day. The availability of these books will help my students understand how relevant reading is to understanding the world around them. Today's readers are tomorrow's leaders!

Mrs. Robb Harrison Park School Grades PreK-2

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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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More than 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

27 students impacted 3donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Abraham Lincoln DK Publishing, Tanya Lee Stone • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
DK Readers: Tale of a Tadpole (Level 1: Beginning to Read) Karen Wallace • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Colorful Day (DK Readers Series) Manufactured by DK Publishing Staff, Manufactured by Dorling Kindersley Publishing • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Is It a Dinosaur? Susan Heinrichs Gray (Illustrator), Susan H. Gray (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $18.00 1 $18.00
From Kernel to Corncob Ellen Weiss • Barnes and Noble $18.00 1 $18.00
Ladybug Larva Grows Up Katie Marsico, Katie Marsico (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $18.00 1 $18.00
From Pit to Peach Tree Ellen Weiss • Barnes and Noble $18.00 1 $18.00
From Eye to Potato Ellen Weiss • Barnes and Noble $18.00 1 $18.00
Time For Kids: Storms! Time for Kids, Leslie Dickstein, With Leslie Dickstein • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Time For Kids: Volcanoes! Time For Kids, Jeremy Caplan (Editor), With Jeremy Caplan • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Time For Kids: Frogs! With Kathryn Hoffman Satterfield, Time for Kids • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Time For Kids: Alexander Graham Bell HarperCollins Childrens, John Micklos (Editor), With John Micklos • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Benjamin Franklin (Time for Kids Series) Kathryn Hoffman Satterfield, Editors of Time for Kids, With Kathryn Hoffman Satterfield • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Time for Kids: Butterflies! Time for Kids, With David Bjerklie • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Time for Kids: Earthquakes! Time for Kids, With Barbara Collier • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Time For Kids: Plants! Time for Kids Magazine, Brenda Iasevoli • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Dogs (DK Pockets Series) Manufactured by DK Publishing Staff, David Taylor • Barnes and Noble $3.49 1 $3.49
DK Readers: Rockets and Spaceships (Level 1: Beginning to Read) Karen Wallace, Linda Martin (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Starry Sky (DK Readers Series) Kate Hayden • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Bats! (Time for Kids Series) Nicole Iorio, Staff of The of Time for Kids Editors, With Nicole Iorio • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Jesse Owens Running Into History (Time for Kids Series) Time for Kids Editors, Elaine Israel (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Planets! (Time for Kids Series) Lisa Jo Rudy, Staff of The Time for Kids Editors, With Lisa Jo Rudy • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Snakes! (Time for Kids Series) Lisa Jo Rudy, Editors of Time for Kids, With Lisa Jo Rudy • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Chess for Kids Michael Basman • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Harriet Tubman: A Woman of Courage (TFK Biographies Series) Editors of TIME for Kids, With Renee Skelton • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Dinosaurs Sarah Walker, Samantha Gray, Mary Ling (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Dinosaurs (Discoveries Series) Angela Milner • Barnes and Noble $3.47 1 $3.47
Dinosaur Time: (I Can Read Book Series: Level 1) Peggy Parish, Arnold Lobel (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Big Book of Dinosaurs: A First Book for Young Children Angela Wilkes, DK Publishing • Barnes and Noble $11.99 1 $11.99
My Big Dinosaur Book Roger Priddy • Barnes and Noble $5.35 1 $5.35
Dinosaur's Day (Level 1: Beginning to Read) Ruth Thomson, Linda Martin (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Awesome Book of Dinosaurs! Clizia Gussoni, Luke McDonnell (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
DK Readers: Born to Be a Butterfly (Level 1: Beginning to Read) DK Publishing, Karen Wallace • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
A DK Readers: Jobs People Do: A Day in a Life of a Firefighter (Level 1: Beginning to Read) Linda Hayward, Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
I Want to Be a Gymnast (DK Readers Series, Level 2) Kate Simkins • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
A DK Readers: A Bed for Winter (Level 1: Beginning to Read) DK Publishing, Karen Wallace • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
DK First Steps: Visiting the Doctor DK Publishing, Manufactured by DK Publishing • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
DK Readers: Shark Attack! (Level 3: Reading Alone) Cathy East Dubowski, Dk • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
DK Readers: Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! (Level 2: Beginning to Read Alone) Jennifer A. Dussling • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
DK Readers: Spiders' Secrets (Level 3: Reading Alone), Vol. 3 Richard Platt, DK Publishing • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Touch and Feel: Dinosaur Dave King (Photographer), Ray Moller (Photographer), Andy Crawford (Photographer) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Meet the Dinosaurs (DK Readers Series) Penny Smith (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Insiders Dinosaurs (Insiders Series) John A. Long • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
Dinosaur Discoveries Gail Gibbons, Gail Gibbons (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
Dinosaurs: Scholastic First Discoveries Scholastic, Claude Delafosse, James Prunier, Henri Galeron (Illustrator), James Prunier (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Dinosaurs! Howard Zimmerman, George Olshevsky, Various (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $17.95 1 $17.95
Usborne Book of Dinosaurs Susan Mayes, Luis Rey (Illustrator), Stuart Trotter (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
Oxford First Book of Dinosaurs Barbara Taylor • Barnes and Noble $19.75 1 $19.75
DK Readers: Astronaut, Living in Space (Level 2: Beginning to Read Alone) Kate Hayden, Peter Dennis (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
The Story of Chocolate (DK Readers: Reading Alone Series) C. J. Polin, Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
DK Readers: Eruption: The Story of Volcanoes (Level 2: Beginning to Read Alone) Anita Ganeri, Anita Ganeria, Linda Martin (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
DK Readers: Abraham Lincoln: Lawyer, Leader, Legend (Level 3: Reading Alone) Justine Korman, Ron Fontes, Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
DK Readers: Wild Baby Animals (Level 1: Beginning to Read) Karen Wallace • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
DK Readers: Diving Dolphin (Level 1: Beginning to Read) Karen Wallace • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Big Dinosaur Dig (DK Readers Series), Vol. 3 Manufactured by DK Publishing Staff, Esther Ripley • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
DK Readers: Slinky, Scaly Snakes (Level 2: Beginning to Read Alone) Jennifer A. Dussling, Angela Royston • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Arctic and Antarctic (DK Eye Wonder Series) Lorrie Mack, Lorrie Mack (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Rocks & Minerals (DK Pockets Series) Manufactured by DK Publishing Staff, Sue Fuller • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
DK Readers: Twisters! (Level 2: Beginning to Read Alone), Vol. 2 DK Publishing, Peter Dennis (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
DK Readers: Whatever the Weather (Level 1: Beginning to Read) Karen Wallace • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Duck Pond Dip (DK Readers Series) DK Publishing • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59
Fishy Tales (DK Readers Series) Linda B. Gambrell • Barnes and Noble $3.59 1 $3.59

Materials cost

$381.77

Vendor shipping charges

 $38.18

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.54

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$446.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$97.90

Total project goal

$543.90

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $543.90

2 Donors

-$524.71

Donations toward project cost

-$446.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$78.71

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$19.19

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