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Ms. Oakley from Oakland, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building Self Esteem with Our Leading Heroines

Help me give my students with books with diverse perspectives, characters, and, especially, heroines!

  • $223 goal

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My Project

Stories are some of the most powerful tools we have. Books develop ideas, motivations, and wonderment, as well as our sense of self and others. When we choose which stories to read to our students, or which books to place on our shelves, we're sending a message to our students. I want to make sure my students see themselves reflected on myself and, when reviewing my current library, I have noticed that I have a lot about heroes, but am lacking heroines. Research from Florida State University shows that “no more than 33% of books published per year contain central characters that are adult women or female animals, but adult men and male animals appear in up to 100% of books.”

My seventh grade girls need access to more books that have confident, persistent, and courageous heroines that they can relate to.

The more students feel empowered with what they read, the more they will actually read.

Ms. Oakley
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Baby-sitters Club Graphic Novels #1-7: A Graphix Collection: Full-Color Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix) • Amazon Business $38.30 1 $38.30
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls - The Chapter Book Collection (A Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Chapter Book) • Amazon Business $36.54 1 $36.54
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories Books 1-4 • Amazon Business $24.94 1 $24.94
Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women • Amazon Business $20.88 1 $20.88
The Never Girls Collection #1 (Disney: The Never Girls): Books 1-4 • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Howl's Moving Castle • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99

Materials cost

$144.04

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $13.18

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.16

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$189.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$33.42

Total project goal

$222.80

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $222.80

1 Donor

-$44.56

Donations toward project cost

-$37.88

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$6.68

match offer

-$178.24

Match offer toward project cost

-$151.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.74

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