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

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Diverse and Inclusive Novels and Stories for Our Classroom Library

Help me give my students diverse, educational, accessible books to choose from and share with each other.

  • $999 goal

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My Students

My students come from a socio-economically diverse community where we work to learn about diverse perspectives and identities in everything that we do. Our school strives to be a community working together to build success and inspire every child, every day. I believe that this includes honoring and highlighting the diverse learners that make up our school, our community, and our world.

We make reading a priority in our classroom.

Each day, we begin class by reading our independent choice novels, and students have both a classroom library and a school library to find the books that are right for them. That being said, many of the full class novels we have access to do not represent the full range of learners and identities at our school.

We also work to support each other in difficult learning. We will begin our year by creating social contracts that we all sign, myself included, to share goals we have for making our class a welcoming, safe, and brave space to learn and grow. We ask questions. We know we can do hard things. We know that words matter.

My Project

I want to fill our classroom with books, but I do not want to fill our classroom with books that no one wants to read. Currently, I have bookshelves full of books I have inherited upon entering this classroom. They are old in more ways than one. Not only are many of them falling apart, but many of them are unloved by virtue of being simply old, uninteresting, and unattractive. I have worked this past year to visit library book sales to increase the amount of high-interest books in our classroom, but I have found some gaps in our current selections.

It's not about creating a library of more books, but a library of better and more accessible books.

This year I am focused on filling non-fiction gaps with books that my students are consistently asking for, as well as books at lower-levels for struggling readers or those that simply haven't found what they love... yet. This means more graphic novels and more books that are shorter and often considered "below grade-level". When it comes to choice-reading, though, I am less concerned about the level and more concerned about students who want to read, who identify as readers and share that love with each other. This is particularly important this year as I have two co-taught classes with many students with IEPs and diverse classroom needs. It is essential that every student feel they can access books in my classroom, no matter their needs.

In addition, I try to cover new books in contact paper so that they last longer. With this project, I will be able to get better books into hands faster and more efficiently while providing them with protection so more students can enjoy them.

Ms. Black
Grades 6-8

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Harry Potter Books 1-7 Special Edition Boxed Set • Amazon Business $52.40 1 $52.40
Con-Tact Brand Shelf Liner and Privacy Film, Clear Cover Self-Adhesive Semi-Transparent Liner, 18'' x 20', Clear Matte • Amazon Business $5.99 8 $47.92
What Was...? (10 Books) • AKJ Education $44.82 1 $44.82
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Box of Books (books 1-6) • Amazon Business $37.99 1 $37.99
The Land of Stories Complete Paperback Gift Set • Amazon Business $33.61 1 $33.61
I Survived: Ten Thrilling Stories (Boxed Set) • Amazon Business $31.27 1 $31.27
Amulet Box Set: Books 1-3 • Amazon Business $26.30 1 $26.30
Dog Man: The Epic Collection: From the Creator of Captain Underpants (Dog Man #1-3 Boxed Set) • Amazon Business $21.47 1 $21.47
The Seeds of America Trilogy: Chains; Forge; Ashes • Amazon Business $16.47 1 $16.47
The Tea Dragon Society • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees • Amazon Business $12.48 1 $12.48
The Benefits of Being an Octopus • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Sheets • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Sanity & Tallulah (Sanity & Tallulah, Book 1) • Amazon Business $10.97 1 $10.97
The Hidden Witch • Amazon Business $10.77 1 $10.77
The 13-Story Treehouse • AKJ Education $10.21 1 $10.21
Ghostopolis • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
BONE #3: Eyes of the Storm • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
BONE #1: Out from Boneville • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Bone #2: The Great Cow Race • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
The Witch Boy • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Mighty Jack • Amazon Business $9.22 1 $9.22
Brave • AKJ Education $8.03 1 $8.03
Temple Grandin How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Sisters • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
New Kid • Amazon Business $7.79 1 $7.79
March: Book One • Amazon Business $7.77 1 $7.77
Smile • Amazon Business $7.39 1 $7.39
Miles Morales: Spider-Man • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Ball Don't Lie • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
A Night Divided (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Aru Shah and the End of Time (A Pandava Novel Book 1) (Pandava Series) • Amazon Business $6.58 1 $6.58
When Friendship Followed Me Home • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Only Game • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Big Field • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Travel Team • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Belly Up • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Every Soul A Star • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Candymakers • Amazon Business $6.48 1 $6.48
Awkward (Berrybrook Middle School) • Amazon Business $6.37 1 $6.37
Fish in a Tree • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
Drama • Amazon Business $5.92 1 $5.92
The Losers Club • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Detective's Assistant • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The False Prince Book 1 of the Ascendance Trilogy • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
CatStronauts: Mission Moon • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Absolute Value of Mike • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Who Was Stan Lee? • Amazon Business $5.69 1 $5.69
The BFG • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
Love That Dog • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
Because of Winn-dixie • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
The Lemonade War • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
Masterminds • Amazon Business $5.34 1 $5.34
Slacker • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
George • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Who Was Frida Kahlo? • AKJ Education $4.79 1 $4.79
Who Was Roberto Clemente? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was King Tut? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Leonardo da Vinci? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Is Sonia Sotomayor? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was John F. Kennedy? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Anne Frank? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Albert Einstein? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Sacagawea? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Amelia Earhart? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Eleanor Roosevelt? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Louis Armstrong? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Alexander Hamilton? • Amazon Business $3.98 1 $3.98
Who Was Walt Disney? • Amazon Business $3.47 1 $3.47
Who Is Michael Jordan? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $3.47 1 $3.47

Materials cost

$736.30

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.99

Sales tax

 $67.37

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.04

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$848.70

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$149.77

Total project goal

$998.47

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $998.47

17 Donors

-$869.56

Donations toward project cost

-$750.96

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$118.60

match offer

-$115.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$97.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$13.92

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