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Mrs. Lester from Johnson City, TN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books...Represent...All Readers!

Help me give my students books to help all my readers feel celebrated and to have a character they can connect with in a story!

  • $974 goal

This project expired on May 5, 2025.

This project expired on May 5, 2025.

My Project

Hi! I am a K-12 Public School Librarian that serves over 600 students in my school! Having such a large age range of readers, I am always looking for new books for them to read. Representation for all my readers in books is so important. It is also important to have that in a variety of genres.

All my readers deserve to have a character that they can connect and identify with in a book.

Having representation for all my readers in stories is so important, helps my readers feel seen, and have someone they can connect with is the goal of this project.

This project is for books, so many books! Books for every age of reader that I have coming to my library! This project has books to strengthen and grow my library to include more and more representation of all. I have been working on this for years but funding for books can be tricky and it goes so quickly. I want to continue to see my library grow and celebrate every student in my school! You can help by supporting my project and this will support students for years and years to come!

Mrs. Lester University School Grades PreK-2

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Johnson City, TN View local requests 600 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Watch Us Rise • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Little People Big Dreams Amanda Gorman /anglais • Amazon Business $18.62 1 $18.62
Land of the Cranes (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Love Is a Revolution • Amazon Business $17.66 1 $17.66
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now . . .: A LOVE Story • Amazon Business $17.42 1 $17.42
Wilma Rudolph (Volume 27) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 27) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Mahatma Gandhi (Volume 25) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 25) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Mindy Kaling (Volume 63) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 63) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Name Jar • Amazon Business $15.73 1 $15.73
Eagle Drums: (Newbery Honor Book) • Amazon Business $15.00 1 $15.00
Finding My Dance • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Marcus Rashford (Volume 83) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 87) • Amazon Business $14.87 1 $14.87
Brilliant Bea: A Story for Kids With Dyslexia and Learning Differences • Amazon Business $14.75 1 $14.75
Under My Hijab • Amazon Business $14.67 1 $14.67
Kamala Harris (Volume 68) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 67) • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
Little People Big Dreams Harriet Tubman /anglais • Amazon Business $14.42 1 $14.42
The Boldest White: A Story of Hijab and Community (The Proudest Blue, 3) • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
Usain Bolt (Little People, BIG DREAMS) • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Jean-Michel Basquiat (Little People, BIG DREAMS) • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Vanessa Nakate (Volume 100) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 100) • Amazon Business $13.91 1 $13.91
Yoko Ono (Volume 71) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 70) • Amazon Business $13.83 1 $13.83
Anna Pavlova (Volume 85) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 91) • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
Beyoncé (Little People, BIG DREAMS) • Amazon Business $12.75 1 $12.75
Simone Biles (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 103) • Amazon Business $12.74 1 $12.74
If You Come Softly: Twentieth Anniversary Edition • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
Anne Frank (Volume 15) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 15) • Amazon Business $12.14 1 $12.14
The ABCs of Black History (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
Josephine Baker (Volume 16) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 16) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Not Yet: The Story of an Unstoppable Skater • Amazon Business $11.62 1 $11.62
Leo Messi (Little People, BIG DREAMS) • Amazon Business $11.35 1 $11.35
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story • Amazon Business $11.23 1 $11.23
My Powerful Hair: A Picture Book • Amazon Business $11.22 1 $11.22
Pele (Volume 46) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 46) • Amazon Business $11.17 1 $11.17
Lewis Hamilton (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 97) • Amazon Business $11.15 1 $11.15
Michael Jordan (Volume 72) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 71) • Amazon Business $11.00 1 $11.00
Malala Yousafzai (Volume 57) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 57) • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
Frida Kahlo (Volume 2) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 2) • Amazon Business $10.83 1 $10.83
Islandborn • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Volume 66) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 66) • Amazon Business $10.59 1 $10.59
Wilma Mankiller (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 84) • Amazon Business $10.59 1 $10.59
We Are Water Protectors: (Caldecott Medal Winner) • Amazon Business $10.54 1 $10.54
Firebird • Amazon Business $10.53 1 $10.53
The Last Cuentista: Newbery Medal Winner • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Nelson Mandela (Volume 73) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 73) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Ella Fitzgerald • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Mae Jemison (Volume 81) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 85) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Shakira (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 95) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Stevie Wonder (Volume 56) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 56) • Amazon Business $9.91 1 $9.91
Muhammad Ali (Volume 26) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 21) • Amazon Business $9.91 1 $9.91
Michelle Obama (Volume 62) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 62) • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Bruce Lee (Volume 29) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 29) • Amazon Business $9.84 1 $9.84
Aretha Franklin (Volume 44) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 44) • Amazon Business $9.81 1 $9.81
Ways to Grow Love (A Ryan Hart Story, 2) • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
Pablo Picasso (Volume 74) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 74) • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
Prince (Volume 54) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 54) • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
Rosa Parks (Volume 9) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 9) • Amazon Business $9.50 1 $9.50
Freewater (Newbery & Coretta Scott King Award Winner) • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
We Still Belong • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
Lenny Henry (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 106) • Amazon Business $9.38 1 $9.38
Ways to Build Dreams (A Ryan Hart Story) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Martin Luther King Jr. (Volume 33) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 33) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Maya Angelou (Volume 4) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 4) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Alma and How She Got Her Name • Amazon Business $6.97 1 $6.97

Materials cost

$781.42

Vendor shipping charges

$3.99

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.72

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$827.13

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$145.96

Total project goal

$973.09

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