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Mrs. Ward from Hanoverton OH is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Middle School Book Vending Machine

Help me give my students books from our middle school book machine to take home for their own.

  • 8 donors
  • $154 still needed

expires Jul 10

  • 8 donors
  • $154 still needed
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My Project

We recently purchased a book vending machine for our middle school students (grades 5-8) and now we need to fill it with age-appropriate books. Tokens are given out in conjunction with our PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) team.

Unlike library books, students will be able to keep these books as their own and take them home.

Students earn tokens from teachers, the guidance counselor, and other staff members to use in the machine to select books. Our plan is to reward tokens to reinforce positive behaviors across the board, to promote an equitable environment and to support social and emotional health. It is our sincere wish to improve behavioral shifts, attendance, participation and random acts of kindness with the book machine.

Mrs. Ward
Never Before Funded Grades 6-8
  • United Local High School
  • Hanoverton, OH
    • More than a third of students from low‑income households

    This project will reach 300 students.

    8 donors have given to this project.

    Never Before Funded

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Harry Potter Paperback Boxed Set: Books #1-7 • AKJ Education $63.46 1 $63.46
Achieve It! Percy Jackson & The Olympians Book Series Variety Pack, Grades 5 to 9, Set of 5 - Grades 5-9 - Kids • School Specialty $48.74 1 $48.74
Middle School 7 Books Collection Set by James Patterson (Dogs Best Friend, Just My Rotten Luck, Save Rafe, My Brother Is A Big Fat Liar & MORE!) • Amazon Business $43.64 1 $43.64
Middle School Box Set • Amazon Business $36.13 1 $36.13
Jason Reynolds & Track Series Paperback Collection (paperback boxed, book set) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $32.00 1 $32.00
Middle School Series Books 10 - 13 Collection Set by James Patterson (From Hero to Zero, Born to Rock, Master of Disaster & Field Trip Fiasco) • Amazon Business $30.00 1 $30.00
The Crossover Series 3-Book Box Set: The Crossover, Booked, Rebound (paperback book set) • MahoganyBooks $25.19 1 $25.19
Middle School: My Brother Is a Big, Fat Liar (Middle School, 3) • Amazon Business $20.63 1 $20.63
Ain't Burned All the Bright (hardcover graphic novel) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
The Light in Hidden Places (hardcover) - Reese's Book Club YA Pick • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Tokyo Ever After: A Novel (hardcover) - Reese's Book Club YA Pick • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
They Called Us Enemy (paperback graphic novel) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
American Born Chinese (YA paperback graphic novel) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow (hardcover) - Reese's Book Club YA Pick • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
Thomas Wildus and The Book of Sorrows • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Wonderstruck (Schneider Family Book Award - Middle School Winner) • Amazon Business $15.67 1 $15.67
Ikenga (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $15.29 1 $15.29
Firekeeper's Daughter (hardcover) - Reese's Book Club YA Pick • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
Milkweed (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $14.00 1 $14.00
The Improbable Rise of Paco Jones • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
The Light in Hidden Places (paperback) - Reese's Book Club YA Pick • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
Invisible: A Graphic Novel (paperback graphic novel) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
The Downstairs Girl (paperback) - Reese's Book Club YA Pick • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
New Kid (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $11.69 1 $11.69
The Girl in White • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (YA paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
The Meltdown (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 13) • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
The Book Thief • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #3) • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
Diper Overlode(Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 17) • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
Long Way Down (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $10.79 1 $10.79
Pippa Park Raises Her Game (1) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Brown Girl Dreaming (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $9.89 1 $9.89
Middle School: Born to Rock (Middle School Book 11) • Amazon Business $9.30 1 $9.30
Eighth Grade Bites (Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, Book 1) • Amazon Business $9.06 1 $9.06
I Funny: A Middle School Story (I Funny, 1) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Meltdown (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 13) • Amazon Business $8.98 1 $8.98
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Book 1: Sword of Summer, The-Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Book 1 • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
The Graveyard Book • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Alone in the Woods • Amazon Business $7.98 1 $7.98
Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist) (Ship Breaker, 1) • Amazon Business $7.69 1 $7.69
Middle School: Master of Disaster (Middle School, 12) • Amazon Business $7.46 1 $7.46
What Lives in the Woods • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79

Materials cost

$742.28

Vendor shipping charges

 $18.77

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.13

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$802.18

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$141.56

Total project goal

$943.74

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $943.74

7 Donors

-$580.00

Donations toward project cost

-$553.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.00

match offer

-$140.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$119.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$70.59

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $153.15

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