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

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Diverse Literature for Diverse Students

Help me give my students culturally diverse and enriching books to aid their learning in English!

  • $295 goal

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Mrs. Pendry has another project! Donate to Get on My Level Shakespeare to help her classroom.

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My Project

As a long time learner of English and as a teacher of English at the high school level, I know that in our classrooms we are still reading the same traditional text that have always been read at school. While these texts have an enormous value for our students, they often leave out a large majority of our student learners on a cultural level.

Students deserve to read and see themselves in the books they have access to in class.

Providing culturally and ethnically diverse texts for my students allows all of my students to enjoy the literature they choose to read.

Mrs. Pendry Santa Ynez Valley Union High School Grades 9-12

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Solvang, CA View local requests

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

150 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
They Also Burn People (Hispanic American Heritage Stories) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Marrow Thieves • Amazon Business $14.97 1 $14.97
Solito: A Memoir • Amazon Business $12.63 1 $12.63
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Dear Martin (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $11.69 1 $11.69
Cold: A Novel • Amazon Business $11.35 1 $11.35
Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Efrén Divided (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Gordo • Amazon Business $9.83 1 $9.83
The Book of Unknown Americans • Amazon Business $9.54 1 $9.54
The Silence that Binds Us • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Iveliz Explains It All: (Newbery Honor Award Winner) • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
Black Boy White School • Amazon Business $8.24 1 $8.24
Patron Saints of Nothing • Amazon Business $7.89 1 $7.89
This Is My America • Amazon Business $7.79 1 $7.79
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79

Materials cost

$186.17

Vendor shipping charges

 $14.00

Sales tax

 $17.03

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.79

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$249.99

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$44.12

Total project goal

$294.11

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $294.11

1 Donor

-$294.11

Donations toward project cost

-$249.99

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.12

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