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Mrs. Tannehill from Shelbyville, TN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books Like Me! A Diverse Classroom Library Project

Help me give my students a diverse library full of books that reflect the students in my classroom.

  • $545 goal

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My Students

Hello! I teach 5th grade at a high-poverty school in Middle Tennessee. My students come from many different backgrounds, we have a high ESL population, and many of our students are considered at-risk students. Our school is home to just over 400 students and is located in a small town south of Nashville.

I would love to provide my students with a diverse classroom library.

This year one of my goals is to diversify my classroom library. I want my students to be able to find books with characters who look like them and who have some of the same life experiences. This project will fund books that I will add to my classroom library.

My Project

One of my goals this year is to make sure all my students are reflected somehow in my classroom library. My school is very diverse and I've realized my classroom library is not. This year that will change!

This project will help fill my bookshelves with stories full of characters from all walks of life, all colors, and many diverse backgrounds.

My hope is that when a student finds a book with characters similar to themselves, they will enjoy reading more and become lifelong readers. Lifelong readers make lifelong learners. Students will be able to check books out of my library to read for pleasure. My hope is that students will find this diverse collection of books appealing and want to finish a book from cover to cover. I hope to show them that there are books out there that reflect their life experiences.

Mrs. Tannehill Eastside Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Shelbyville, TN View local requests

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

25 students impacted 9donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Girl Who Drank the Moon • AKJ Education $16.16 1 $16.16
Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
Sitting Bull • AKJ Education $14.56 1 $14.56
Dreamers • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Brown Girl Dreaming • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults) • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Calling All Minds • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Hair Love • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Red Pencil • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Proudest Blue • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
I Am Every Good Thing • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
She Persisted • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Harbor Me • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Blended • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Start Now! • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Fish in a Tree • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Other Words for Home • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) • AKJ Education $11.65 1 $11.65
Wonder • AKJ Education $9.73 1 $9.73
El Deafo • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Women Who Changed the World • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Who Marched for Civil Rights? • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Schomburg: the Man Who Built a Library • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Stella by Starlight • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
The Giver • AKJ Education $6.98 1 $6.98
The Book Thief • AKJ Education $6.94 1 $6.94
Let the Circle Be Unbroken • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Inside Out and Back Again • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Bud, Not Buddy • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
Bud, Not Buddy • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 • AKJ Education $5.98 1 $5.98
Elijah of Buxton • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Mighty Miss Malone • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Ninth Ward • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Becoming Naomi Leon • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
Esperanza Rising • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
One Crazy Summer • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
A Long Walk to Water • AKJ Education $5.28 1 $5.28
Sylvia & Aki • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Color of My Words • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
What Was the March on Washington? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Is Sonia Sotomayor? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
The Skirt • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Rosa Parks? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Nelson Mandela? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37

Materials cost

$420.92

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.31

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$463.23

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$81.75

Total project goal

$544.98

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $544.98

6 Donors

-$445.97

Donations toward project cost

-$420.32

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.65

Matching donations from our partners

-$50.49

Match offers toward project cost

-$42.92

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.57

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$48.52

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