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Mrs. Pierce from Antioch, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books to Build Literacy!

Help me give my students an updated classroom library with selections they can't refuse!

  • $497 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

My students are a fun and energetic group of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders that come from diverse backgrounds and households. They enjoy work that takes the everyday curriculum outside the box and working with others as much as possible. We are a Title I school and approximately 75% of our student population receives free or reduced school lunches due to financial hardship. Many of our students come from families that speak another language in the household as well. Despite personal challenges, my students enjoy the little things that make their learning a fun and memorable experience.

Our classroom stresses an environment of mutual support, respect, laughter, and hard work.

I encourage my students and expect them to support and encourage each other. We spend a lot of time in our classroom every day and so our room needs to be a place that is both inviting and comfortable, clean and functional.

My Project

Every morning at our school, we have homeroom period that starts our day. It is a very short period but it is used for announcements, attendance, news, and silent reading. My classroom has a book shelf with its own selection of books that the students can choose books from each week in addition to books from the school library, to read during this daily quiet time.

I am looking to elaborate upon our outdated, classroom reading selections in order to encourage students to read more books and foster a greater passion for different types of novels.

I am requesting a selection of 40 new novels ranging in levels and topics to appeal to all of my students with the hopes that they will be sparked with curiosity and desire to read all of the new selections!

Mrs. Pierce Park Middle School Grades 6-8

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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Antioch, CA View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

65 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Claudia and Mean Janine • AKJ Education $16.13 1 $16.13
All American Boys • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
The Hate U Give • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
The 57 Bus • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Abracadabra Kid • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
The Crossover • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Booked • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Wonder • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Auggie & Me • AKJ Education $11.89 1 $11.89
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History • AKJ Education $11.87 1 $11.87
The Color Purple • AKJ Education $11.67 1 $11.67
Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel • AKJ Education $11.67 1 $11.67
The Things They Carried • AKJ Education $11.19 1 $11.19
A Long Way Gone • AKJ Education $10.22 1 $10.22
Unwind • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Playground • AKJ Education $9.35 1 $9.35
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian • AKJ Education $9.12 1 $9.12
The Fault in Our Stars • AKJ Education $8.58 1 $8.58
Smile • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Ghosts • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Drama • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children • AKJ Education $7.69 1 $7.69
Stella by Starlight • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Out of My Mind • AKJ Education $6.99 1 $6.99
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas • AKJ Education $6.98 1 $6.98
The Book Thief • AKJ Education $6.94 1 $6.94
Savvy • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Inside Out and Back Again • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Tangerine • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Outsiders • AKJ Education $6.37 1 $6.37
Speak • AKJ Education $6.14 1 $6.14
Love That Dog • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Crenshaw • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Maniac Magee • AKJ Education $5.60 1 $5.60
The Lemonade War • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
The Chocolate Touch • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
Skinnybones • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Nerd Girls A Catastrophe of Nerdish Proportions • AKJ Education $4.15 1 $4.15

Materials cost

$354.57

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $32.44

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.32

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$422.33

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.53

Total project goal

$496.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $496.86

1 Donor

-$248.43

Donations toward project cost

-$211.17

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.26

match offer

-$248.42

Match offer toward project cost

-$211.16

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.26

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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