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Ms. Algarin from Salt Lake City, UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading is the Cure!

Help me give my students new books to read to help see themselves!

  • $919 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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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 attend an urban high school. It is the most diverse high school in the state. So far this year, we have moved back to in person learning, but recently switched to remote. My 8th and 10th grade students are missing access to our shool library and my classroom library. Most of my students come from literacy poor homes as well.

My students do not have easy access to quality literature.

They need access to high interest independent reading books. Most of my students come from homes with no books. They also avoid using the library because of the fear of losing books and having to pay to replace them or pay overdue fines.

My Project

The pandemic and distance learning have greatly affected my students and their overall wellbeing and mental health. Students are staring at screens more than ever. I believe that given the right books, they'll put the screens down if only for a short time.

Reading can greatly reduce stress and anxiety and build empathy.

All of these are important for the world they are living in right now. They need books! They need "windows" to learn about people and places unlike them. They need "mirrors" to read about people and places that remind them of home.

Ms. Algarin West High School Grades 9-12

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 Ms. Algarin

Salt Lake City, UT View local requests

More than half 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Elizabeth Acevedo Collection 3 Books Set (Clap When You Land, The Poet X, With the Fire on High) • Amazon Business $44.99 1 $44.99
Firekeeper's Daughter • Amazon Business $10.23 3 $30.69
DEAR EVAN HANSEN • Amazon Business $12.54 2 $25.08
The Tattooist of Auschwitz: Young Adult edition - including new foreword and Q+A by the author: the heart-breaking and unforgettable international bestseller • Amazon Business $12.24 2 $24.48
The Road (Oprah's Book Club) • Amazon Business $12.08 2 $24.16
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story • Amazon Business $22.80 1 $22.80
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
The Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Novel • Amazon Business $8.96 2 $17.92
Heartstopper Volume Three • Amazon Business $17.07 1 $17.07
Ain't Burned All the Bright • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
A Snake Falls to Earth • Amazon Business $16.71 1 $16.71
Teen Titans: Raven • Amazon Business $8.15 2 $16.30
Klara and the Sun: A novel • Amazon Business $16.09 1 $16.09
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings • Amazon Business $7.92 2 $15.84
Life Doesn't Frighten Me (25th Anniversary Edition) • Amazon Business $15.79 1 $15.79
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (Indigenous Studies) • Amazon Business $15.61 1 $15.61
Me (Moth) • Amazon Business $15.59 1 $15.59
The Downstairs Girl • Amazon Business $7.79 2 $15.58
Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice • Amazon Business $14.69 1 $14.69
Call Us What We Carry: Poems • Amazon Business $14.53 1 $14.53
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
The Stories of Eva Luna • Amazon Business $14.29 1 $14.29
We Are All the Same in the Dark: A Novel • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Crazy Brave: A Memoir • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
And Still I Rise • Amazon Business $13.96 1 $13.96
The Thing Around Your Neck • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
Chronicle of a Death Foretold • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Vintage Baldwin • Amazon Business $13.00 1 $13.00
She Had Some Horses: Poems • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Drained • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
It Ends with Us: A Novel • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Half of a Yellow Sun • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Notes on Grief • Amazon Business $12.88 1 $12.88
The Marrow Thieves • Amazon Business $12.57 1 $12.57
Heartstopper: Volume 4: A Graphic Novel (4) • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
The Mountains Sing • Amazon Business $12.15 1 $12.15
Recitatif: A Story • Amazon Business $11.29 1 $11.29
Circe • Amazon Business $11.10 1 $11.10
In Five Years: A Novel • Amazon Business $11.06 1 $11.06
Like a Love Story • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Ugly Love: A Novel • Amazon Business $10.19 1 $10.19
Americanah • Amazon Business $10.08 1 $10.08
Pet • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Poet X • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel • Amazon Business $8.59 1 $8.59
Pride and Prejudice: (Special Edition) (Jane Austen Collection) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Boy21 • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
The Great Gatsby (Vintage Classics) • Amazon Business $6.50 1 $6.50
We Were Liars • Amazon Business $5.98 1 $5.98
47 Days: The True Story of Two Teen Boys Defying Hitler's Reich • Amazon Business $5.49 1 $5.49

Materials cost

$739.64

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.09

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$780.73

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$137.78

Total project goal

$918.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $918.51

1 Donor

-$918.51

Donations toward project cost

-$780.73

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$137.78

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