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Mr. Marcial from Opa Locka, FL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Us Become Book Lovers!

Help me give my students an amazing independent reading library! My students need to read books from diverse authors that represent the issues that they go through daily and become lifelong book lovers!

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

My students are characters! They are funny, witty and diverse. They love to have heated discussions and debates about the books we are reading in English class. They are genuinely excited to interact with one another and can often be overheard in vigorous conversations about books.

My school is in the community of Opa-Locka and the student population comes from all over the Miami area.

Students at my school have family backgrounds from Haiti, the Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Africa and the US.

My Project

Imagine a classroom and school community where students are deeply engaged in the books that they are reading each and every day! This is the classroom I am building daily. The love of reading is something that many of my students have not yet found.

Building a robust independent classroom library where students are reading about characters with similar experiences as them is paramount in making this happen.

I want students to LOVE reading because they can make personal connections while at the same time expanding their horizons. Students in my classroom need exposure to authors that write about diverse topics: Latino/African-American identify, sexuality, religion and equality. They deserve the opportunity to fall in love with books and build a lasting relationship with literature in order to become more empathic and knowledgeable citizens of the world.

Helping to fund this project is a giant step in that direction!

Mr. Marcial Beacon College Preparatory Elementary School Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More about Mr. Marcial

Opa Locka, FL View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

75 students impacted 23donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Grade 6 High Interest, Low Readability • AKJ Education $81.48 1 $81.48
Books Featuring Boys - Grades 4-5 (10 books) • AKJ Education $60.47 1 $60.47
Chronicles of Narnia (7 Bk Set) • AKJ Education $42.60 1 $42.60
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls • AKJ Education $31.50 1 $31.50
Getting Away with Murder The True Story of the Emmett Till Case • AKJ Education $19.79 1 $19.79
Queer As a Five-Dollar Bill • AKJ Education $18.97 1 $18.97
Weird but True Collector's Set (Boxed Set) 900 Outrageous Facts • AKJ Education $17.48 1 $17.48
When the Beat Was Born DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop • AKJ Education $17.09 1 $17.09
Bronxwood • AKJ Education $8.02 2 $16.04
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
Tyrell • AKJ Education $7.29 2 $14.58
The Giver • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
I Dissent • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
The Hate U Give • AKJ Education $13.29 1 $13.29
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Hidden Figures • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Harbor Me • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
She Persisted • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Wangari's Trees of Peace A True Story from Africa • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Henry's Freedom Box • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Openly Straight • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Marisol McDonald no combina (Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match) • AKJ Education $13.10 1 $13.10
What Would She Do? 25 True Stories of Trailblazing Rebel Women • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Fish in a Tree • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Moo • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Guys Read: Heroes & Villains • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Black Panther 1 • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Julián Is a Mermaid • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
The Boy at the Back of the Class • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Remember My Name My Story from First Pitch to Game Changer • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Everything I Never Told You A Novel • AKJ Education $11.68 1 $11.68
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
Langston Hughes • AKJ Education $10.91 1 $10.91
Black Indians A Hidden Heritage • AKJ Education $10.21 1 $10.21
Double Down • AKJ Education $10.18 1 $10.18
Boy Meets Boy • AKJ Education $10.18 1 $10.18
Wonder • AKJ Education $9.99 1 $9.99
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales • AKJ Education $9.49 1 $9.49
The Stonekeeper (Amulet #1) The Stonekeeper • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
BONE #3: Eyes of the Storm • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
BONE #6: Old Man's Cave • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
BONE #9: Crown of Horns • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
BONE #5: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
BONE #4: The Dragonslayer • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
BONE #11: Tall Tales • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
El Deafo • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Bone #2: The Great Cow Race • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
BONE #1: Out from Boneville • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
BONE #8: Treasure Hunters • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Ghostopolis • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Beowulf • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Prince of the Elves (Amulet #5) Prince of the Elves • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
The Cloud Searchers (Amulet #3) • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
BONE #7: Ghost Circles • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
The Crossover • AKJ Education $9.38 1 $9.38
Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy • AKJ Education $8.75 1 $8.75
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian • AKJ Education $8.69 1 $8.69
The Fault in Our Stars • AKJ Education $8.58 1 $8.58
Brown Girl Dreaming • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Drama • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Getting Away with Murder • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Big Nate: Genius Mode • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Stella by Starlight • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Perseus The Hunt for Medusa's Head : A Greek Myth • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Cuba 15 • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Does My Head Look Big in This? • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
We Were Here • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Big Nate: From The Top • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Mexican WhiteBoy • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Goosebumps Graphix #1: Creepy Creatures • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Keesha's House • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Ball Don't Lie • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Lowriders to the Center of the Earth • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
You Don't Even Know Me Stories and Poems About Boys • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Sold • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Tangerine • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
Heaven • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Eighth-Grade Superzero • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Behind You • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
How Tia Lola Learned to Teach • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Novio Boy A Play • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Stargirl • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Begging for Change • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The First Part Last • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Science of Breakable Things • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
A Boy Called Slow The True Story of Sitting Bull • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Mockingbird • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Alvin Ailey • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Last Summer with Maizon • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Forged By Fire • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Rules • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Mighty Miss Malone • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Love That Dog • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
Kickoff Blitz • AKJ Education $5.25 1 $5.25
Full Court Pressure • AKJ Education $5.25 1 $5.25
Battle for Home Plate • AKJ Education $5.25 1 $5.25
Quarterback Scramble • AKJ Education $5.25 1 $5.25
The Color of My Words • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Babymouse #14: Mad Scientist • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Babymouse #3: Beach Babe • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Dragons in a Bag • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Lunch Lady and the Field Trip Fiasco Lunch Lady #6 • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Babymouse #1: Queen of the World! • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Babymouse #2: Our Hero • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Babymouse #6: Camp Babymouse • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Sylvia & Aki • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Lunch Lady #3: Lunch Lady and the Author Visit Vendetta • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Lunch Lady #1: Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Squish #1: Super Amoeba • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Babymouse #7: Skater Girl • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Kinda Like Brothers • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Babymouse #5: Heartbreaker • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Babymouse #9: Monster Mash • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Hate That Cat: A Novel • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Lunch Lady #2: Lunch Lady and the League of Librarians • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Manga Math Mysteries #4: The Kung Fu Puzzle: A Mystery with Time and Temperature • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
Manga Math Mysteries 3 The Secret Ghost: A Mystery with Distance and Measurement • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
Who Was Frida Kahlo? • AKJ Education $4.79 1 $4.79
Who Was Nelson Mandela? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Keena Ford and the Second-Grade Mix-Up • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
The Skirt • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
A Girl Named Misty • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Girls Like Me (Bluford High Series #21) • AKJ Education $2.92 1 $2.92

Materials cost

$1,342.60

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$20.14

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,392.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$245.78

Total project goal

$1,638.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,638.52

22 Donors

-$1,629.69

Donations toward project cost

-$1,392.74

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$236.95

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.83

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