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Ms. Denny from Greensboro, NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reflecting our student population in our media center collection

Help me give my students books from diverse authors so they can see themselves in our collection!

  • $461 goal

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My Project

Our school media center is a vital resource for our Tiger Community, providing access to a wide range of books that support their learning & inspire their imaginations. In order to provide a robust and diverse collection of resources to our students we need to expand and update our current collection.

It is crucial to make sure students can see themselves in the collection.

As Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop said, "Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created or recreated by the author. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books."

Your support will help us provide a quality media center collection with more current and diverse materials. As well as, foster a love of reading that can lead to lifelong learning and personal growth.

Ms. Denny Western Guilford Middle 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

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Greensboro, NC View local requests

Nearly all 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

750 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Misfits Series 2 Books Set - A Royal Conundrum, A Copycat Conundrum • Amazon Business $24.00 1 $24.00
All the Blues in the Sky • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Mascot • Amazon Business $15.63 1 $15.63
Lo and Behold: (A Graphic Novel) (Lo & Behold) • Amazon Business $14.85 1 $14.85
Between Two Brothers • Amazon Business $14.20 1 $14.20
Boy 2.0 (Boy 2.0, 1) • Amazon Business $14.10 1 $14.10
Are You Nobody Too? • Amazon Business $13.00 1 $13.00
Alebrijes: Cuentista Book II: Cuentista (The Last Cuentista) • Amazon Business $12.98 1 $12.98
A First Time for Everything • Amazon Business $12.79 1 $12.79
Amil and the After • Amazon Business $12.57 1 $12.57
Falling Short • Amazon Business $12.39 1 $12.39
Across So Many Seas • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Black Bird, Blue Road • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
An American Story (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner) • Amazon Business $11.43 1 $11.43
Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Aniana del Mar Jumps In • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Memory Thieves (The Conjureverse Series, 2) • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
How to Be a (Young) Antiracist • Amazon Business $10.73 1 $10.73
Born Behind Bars • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Amari and the Despicable Wonders (Supernatural Investigations, 3) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Iveliz Explains It All: (Newbery Honor Award Winner) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Probability of Everything • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy • Amazon Business $9.84 1 $9.84
Amari and the Great Game (Supernatural Investigations, 2) • Amazon Business $9.81 1 $9.81
Barely Floating • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
Boomi's Boombox • Amazon Business $9.04 1 $9.04
Black Star (The Door of No Return series, 2) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99

Materials cost

$330.73

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $25.80

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.96

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$391.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$69.09

Total project goal

$460.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $460.58

7 Donors

-$342.72

Donations toward project cost

-$305.22

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.50

Matching donations from our partners

-$101.50

Match offers toward project cost

-$86.28

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.22

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$16.36

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