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

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The Right Book for Every Student

My students need one book each that is specially chosen for them to deeply engage them in reading.

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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

I believe that a perfect book exists for each of our students - a book that engages, is at just the right reading level and yet is powerful enough to spark a transformative experience in a young person. Unfortunately, we don't have those books at my school.

I work at a small high school in a big city in California.

My students almost all qualify for free lunch, and they have had a variety of sub-par educational experiences that have lead many of them to view themselves at non-readers. Many of them have never read a full book. Our school focuses on the health and bio-sciences and many of my students are here because they want to become doctors and other health care professionals. There is a dramatic gap in skills between where they are now and where they need to be to achieve their goals.

My Project

Several times during my 9 years teaching, I've been lucky enough to witness a transformation in a student. Occasionally, I've been able to give a kid exactly the right book at the right time, and they've plunged their way through it, loved it, and then subsequently devoured book after book. I want to try to replicate that experience with one whole class of students. I did a survey and had conversations with each of my students, consulted with two young adult librarians, and carefully chose a special book for each of my young people. For example, Thinh will get a copy of Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas and Daijah will get a copy of Kindred by Octavia Butler. The students will read these books individually, but we'll be working as a whole class on plot, characterization, figurative language and theme. I hope that the novelty of having a special book chosen just for them excites them and that the careful pairing of book to student allows them to really engage with their novels.

My students have tremendous need and yet have access to extremely limited resources.

Funding from donors like you is a step toward the equity that public education so desperately needs today. Perhaps you remember a time when someone handed you a book that changed your life. All young people should have that experience. Thank you for making it possible!

Ms. Pezzetti Life Academy Grades 9-12

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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Oakland, CA 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

37 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi • AKJ BOOKS $9.35 1 $9.35
The Black Hand: The Story of Rene "Boxer" Enriquez and His Life in the Mexican Mafia Chris Blatchford • AKJ BOOKS $7.21 1 $7.21
Ender's Game (Ender Wiggin Series #1) Orson Scott Card • AKJ BOOKS $5.12 1 $5.12
The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold • AKJ BOOKS $8.52 1 $8.52
The Illustrated A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking • AKJ BOOKS $25.33 1 $25.33
Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Series #1) Anthony Horowitz • AKJ BOOKS $6.83 1 $6.83
Little Brother Cory Doctorow • AKJ BOOKS $8.54 1 $8.54
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey Ernesto Che Guevara, Cintio Vitier (Introduction), Preface by Aleida Guevara • AKJ BOOKS $9.74 1 $9.74
Animal Dreams Barbara Kingsolver • AKJ BOOKS $10.25 1 $10.25
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo Oscar Zeta Acosta, Robin Desser (Editor) • AKJ BOOKS $9.97 1 $9.97
Flyy Girl Omar Tyree • AKJ BOOKS $7.51 1 $7.51
No Disrespect Sister Souljah, Souljah • AKJ BOOKS $8.87 1 $8.87
Buried Onions Gary Soto • AKJ BOOKS $5.93 1 $5.93
Daughter of Fortune Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) • AKJ BOOKS $10.88 1 $10.88
Dreaming in Cuban Cristina Garcia • AKJ BOOKS $9.53 1 $9.53
The Almost Moon Alice Sebold • AKJ BOOKS $3.79 1 $3.79
V for Vendetta Alan Moore, David Lloyd, David Lloyd (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $12.64 1 $12.64
Geek Love Katherine Dunn • AKJ BOOKS $9.77 1 $9.77
Down These Mean Streets Piri Thomas • AKJ BOOKS $11.12 1 $11.12
Kindred Octavia E. Butler, Robert Crossley (Introduction) • AKJ BOOKS $9.30 1 $9.30
Fledgling Octavia E. Butler • AKJ BOOKS $10.81 1 $10.81
Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler • AKJ BOOKS $9.76 1 $9.76
The Ruins of Gorlan (Ranger's Apprentice Series #1) John Flanagan • AKJ BOOKS $6.83 1 $6.83
The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls • AKJ BOOKS $8.72 1 $8.72
Dune Frank Herbert • AKJ BOOKS $8.54 1 $8.54
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini • AKJ BOOKS $8.63 1 $8.63
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games Series #1) Suzanne Collins • AKJ BOOKS $7.68 1 $7.68
Going after Cacciato Tim O'Brien • AKJ BOOKS $9.77 1 $9.77
The Feast of the Goat Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman (Translator) • AKJ BOOKS $10.43 1 $10.43
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $8.54 1 $8.54
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return Marjane Satrapi • AKJ BOOKS $10.78 1 $10.78
Feed M. T. Anderson • AKJ BOOKS $6.83 1 $6.83
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz • AKJ BOOKS $8.95 1 $8.95
Beloved Toni Morrison • AKJ BOOKS $8.50 1 $8.50
Speak Laurie Halse Anderson • AKJ BOOKS $6.84 1 $6.84
Zorro Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) • AKJ BOOKS $10.25 1 $10.25
So Far From God: A Novel Ana Castillo • AKJ BOOKS $10.45 1 $10.45
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member Sanyika Shakur • AKJ BOOKS $8.87 1 $8.87
The Coldest Winter Ever Sister Souljah • AKJ BOOKS $7.51 1 $7.51

Materials cost

$358.89

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $32.84

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.38

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$432.11

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.25

Total project goal

$508.36

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $508.36

1 Donor

-$432.11

Donations toward project cost

-$432.11

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$76.25

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 $0.00

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