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Ms. Willis from Starkville, MS is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Winning With Award-Winning Books

Help me give my students awarding-winning books to choose from and enjoy!

  • $725 goal

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My Project

My students are becoming increasingly aware of good books. Just today a student told me, "This book woke me up!" Another student recently told me that he didn't like to read until he came to my class. My students are starting to recommend books to one another and they are learning to make connections to themselves and the world around them through books.

With this project, I would love to add more Newbery Award-winning books to our classroom library, as well as National Book Award winners.

I have made sure that my students have access to books that act as mirrors, and now I want to make sure they also have plenty of books that act as windows.

Ms. Willis The Learning Center Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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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 12donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Atlantic Cart System 3 Tier Cart - Wide Mobile Storage, Interchange Shelves and Baskets, Powder-Coated Steel Frame PN23350329 in Black • Amazon Business $107.14 1 $107.14
Grammar for High School: A Sentence-Composing Approach---A Student Worktext • Amazon Business $28.80 1 $28.80
Getting Started with Middle School Sentence Composing: A Student Worktext • Amazon Business $24.21 1 $24.21
Floaters: Poems • Amazon Business $22.87 1 $22.87
Grammar for Middle School: A Sentence-Composing Approach--A Student Worktext • Amazon Business $21.38 1 $21.38
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone • Amazon Business $18.95 1 $18.95
Hell of a Book: A Novel • Amazon Business $17.00 1 $17.00
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America • Amazon Business $15.47 1 $15.47
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake • Amazon Business $14.91 1 $14.91
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together • Amazon Business $13.95 1 $13.95
Watership Down: A Novel • Amazon Business $13.60 1 $13.60
Men We Reaped: A Memoir • Amazon Business $12.97 1 $12.97
This Is My America • Amazon Business $12.61 1 $12.61
Too Bright to See • Amazon Business $12.37 1 $12.37
Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel • Amazon Business $11.07 1 $11.07
Every Body Looking (Dutton Books) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Dead End in Norvelt (Norvelt Series, 1) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
One of the Good Ones (Inkyard Press / Harlequin Teen) • Amazon Business $9.59 1 $9.59
Miles Morales: Shock Waves (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $9.40 1 $9.40
Navigate Your Stars • Amazon Business $9.39 1 $9.39
Last Night at the Telegraph Club • Amazon Business $9.23 1 $9.23
Forged by Fire • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Darkness Before Dawn • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Fish for Jimmy: Inspired by One Family's Experience in a Japanese American Internment Camp • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
No Reply: A Jewish Child Aboard the MS St. Louis and the Ordeal That Followed • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
When You Trap a Tiger: (Winner of the 2021 Newbery Medal) • Amazon Business $8.54 1 $8.54
The Science of Breakable Things • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
When You Reach Me: (Newbery Medal Winner) (Yearling Newbery) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Hello, Universe • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Moon Over Manifest: (Newbery Medal Winner) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
I'm Ok • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Parker Inheritance (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $7.69 1 $7.69
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time • Amazon Business $7.29 1 $7.29
Front Desk (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Tears of a Tiger • Amazon Business $6.69 1 $6.69
Merci Suárez Changes Gears • Amazon Business $6.49 1 $6.49
The Fault in Our Stars • Amazon Business $6.10 1 $6.10

Materials cost

$539.74

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $37.78

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.10

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$615.62

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$108.64

Total project goal

$724.26

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $724.26

9 Donors

-$397.42

Donations toward project cost

-$341.56

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.86

match offer

-$322.42

Match offer toward project cost

-$274.06

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.36

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.42

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