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Ms. Scherzo from Brick, NJ is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Celebrating the LGBTQ+ Community Through Literature

Help me give my students books that represent those in the LGBTQ+ community.

  • $218 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Project

Visibility is everything. My students are high school freshmen through juniors who spend the first ten minutes of every class reading a novel of their choice.

It is important that teens within the LGBTQ+ community see themselves reflected in the books that they read in the classroom.

Traditional teen literature typically focuses on cisgender, heterosexual characters, but ALL students need stories that let them know that they are not alone in their struggles and that there are others who share in their triumphs.

Through these novels, I also hope to help those students outside of the LGBTQ+ community to gain insight and understanding about the experiences of so many of their fellow students.

Ms. Scherzo
Grades 9-12
    More than a third 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

    This project will reach 150 students.

    3 donors have given to this project.

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Being Emily Anniversary Edition • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
Follow Your Arrow • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Red Skies Falling (The Skybound Saga, 2) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Meet Cute Diary • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Black Wings Beating (The Skybound Saga, 1) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
If I Was Your Girl • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
You Should See Me in a Crown • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Gravity of Us • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
The Weight of the Stars • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Some Girls Do • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Felix Ever After • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
I Wish You All the Best • Amazon Business $9.50 1 $9.50
Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun: A Novel • Amazon Business $8.48 1 $8.48
Symptoms of Being Human • Amazon Business $8.46 1 $8.46

Materials cost

$152.19

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.28

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$184.47

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$32.55

Total project goal

$217.02

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $217.02

3 Donors

-$217.02

Donations toward project cost

-$184.47

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.55

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