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Ms. Whitted from Richmond, VA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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This Book Could Be About Me!

Help me give my students a classroom library full of contemporary literature highlighting multicultural experiences and the LGBTQ+ community. These authors poignantly reflect varying experiences of society through voices of fictional characters and personal accounts.

  • $1,038 goal

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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 witty, clever, and they each have a great sense of humor. They each have unique personalities and learning styles, with their needs differing greatly.

They are the epitome of resilience, persevering despite the many difficulties they face some faculty and staff have not experienced during their longer lifespans; working closely with them each day is inspiring.

Teaching students with disabilities means I must utilize my creativity, which is what initially brought me to this platform. My students encourage me in ways they may not be aware of, I am constantly in search of opportunities and resources so I am able to give them what they are so deserving of: a quality and engaging educational experience.

My Project

High School reading selections don't typically reflect the vast changes our society has experienced in the recent past. From the Land rights of Indigenous People, to the Black Lives Matter movement, to immigration rights to LGBTQ+ rights, and on to the Me Too movement; technology has made it possible for people to create community with others of similar identities and experiences to express ideas for change through social activism.

It is my aim the funding of this project introduces the work of authors who represent all genders and non-binary, racial, and religious identities to my students.

As high school teachers, we prepare our students to go out into the world and make their mark. I cannot think of a better way to show them how they could build what's important to them as a platform by introducing literature to choose for their independent reading.

Including writing styles such as poetry and hip-hop music, and covering topics such as stories from a former child soldier in Sierra Leone, a young Pakistani woman who finds her views on arranged marriage when her paramour is to be betrothed to a relative; American accounts of life as an undocumented citizen, and life as a transgender teen. We are able to hear firsthand accounts of experiences fellow global citizens have that vary from that of our own.

With a mix of classics by renown authors and critically acclaimed books that have recently been (and are soon to come) to both the big screen and the silver sceen, my students are sure to find their new favorite book on our shelves.

Ms. Whitted Thomas Jefferson High School Grades 9-12

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.

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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

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen • Amazon Business $24.86 1 $24.86
Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue • Amazon Business $20.00 1 $20.00
Target Practice • Amazon Business $20.00 1 $20.00
Don't Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times • Amazon Business $18.30 1 $18.30
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir • Amazon Business $17.97 1 $17.97
Unmarriageable: A Novel • Amazon Business $17.70 1 $17.70
The To All the Boys I've Loved Before Paperback Collection: To All the Boys I've Loved Before; P.S. I Still Love You; Always and Forever, Lara Jean • Amazon Business $17.29 1 $17.29
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People (ReVisioning American History for Young People) • Amazon Business $17.06 1 $17.06
LGBTQ: The Survival Guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate • Amazon Business $16.92 1 $16.92
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban • Amazon Business $16.08 1 $16.08
The Best of Simple: Stories (American Century) • Amazon Business $16.00 1 $16.00
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen • Amazon Business $15.98 1 $15.98
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop • Amazon Business $15.56 1 $15.56
Life of Pi • Amazon Business $15.50 1 $15.50
A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (For Young People Series) • Amazon Business $15.01 1 $15.01
I Am Alfonso Jones • Amazon Business $14.60 1 $14.60
American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures • Amazon Business $14.56 1 $14.56
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America • Amazon Business $14.25 1 $14.25
This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror • Amazon Business $13.95 1 $13.95
Transgender History, second edition: The Roots of Today's Revolution • Amazon Business $13.92 1 $13.92
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America • Amazon Business $13.74 1 $13.74
The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic • Amazon Business $13.56 1 $13.56
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives • Amazon Business $13.47 1 $13.47
A Queer History of the United States for Young People (ReVisioning American History for Young People) • Amazon Business $13.37 1 $13.37
The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me • Amazon Business $13.36 1 $13.36
First Generation: 36 Trailblazing Immigrants and Refugees Who Make America Great • Amazon Business $13.29 1 $13.29
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series) • Amazon Business $13.11 1 $13.11
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves • Amazon Business $12.91 1 $12.91
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
Wonder Movie Tie-In Edition • Amazon Business $12.86 1 $12.86
What a Time to Be Alone: The Slumflower's Guide to Why You Are Already Enough • Amazon Business $12.39 1 $12.39
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl • Amazon Business $12.25 1 $12.25
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower • Amazon Business $12.18 1 $12.18
He/She/They - Us: Essential information, vocabulary, and concepts to help you become a better ally to the transgender and gender diverse people in your life • Amazon Business $11.95 1 $11.95
The Bluest Eye (Vintage International) • Amazon Business $11.93 1 $11.93
The Darkest Child • Amazon Business $11.93 1 $11.93
The ABC's of LGBT+ • Amazon Business $11.86 1 $11.86
The Hate U Give Collector's Edition • Amazon Business $11.76 1 $11.76
We Make It Better: The LGBTQ Community and Their Positive Contributions to Society • Amazon Business $11.55 1 $11.55
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son • Amazon Business $11.37 1 $11.37
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son • Amazon Business $11.37 1 $11.37
An African American and Latinx History of the United States (ReVisioning American History) • Amazon Business $11.00 1 $11.00
Ayesha At Last • Amazon Business $11.00 1 $11.00
Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
The Poet X • Amazon Business $10.96 1 $10.96
Citizen Illegal (BreakBeat Poets) • Amazon Business $10.87 1 $10.87
They Called Us Enemy • Amazon Business $10.50 1 $10.50
The Alchemist • Amazon Business $10.19 1 $10.19
A Thousand Splendid Suns • Amazon Business $10.10 1 $10.10
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time • Amazon Business $9.88 1 $9.88
This Book Is Gay • Amazon Business $9.83 1 $9.83
All American Boys • Amazon Business $9.73 1 $9.73
Internment • Amazon Business $9.46 1 $9.46
Pashmina • Amazon Business $9.33 1 $9.33
On The Come Up • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier • Amazon Business $8.84 1 $8.84
Queen Sugar: A Novel • Amazon Business $8.78 1 $8.78
The Fault in Our Stars • Amazon Business $7.96 1 $7.96
Monday's Not Coming • Amazon Business $7.70 1 $7.70
A Raisin in the Sun • Amazon Business $7.55 1 $7.55
Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • Amazon Business $7.33 1 $7.33
My Family Divided: One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Piecing Me Together • Amazon Business $7.02 1 $7.02
If They Come for Us: Poems • Amazon Business $6.77 1 $6.77
Dear Martin • Amazon Business $4.64 1 $4.64

Materials cost

$839.68

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.60

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$882.28

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$155.70

Total project goal

$1,037.98

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,037.98

2 Donors

-$1,027.98

Donations toward project cost

-$873.78

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$154.20

match offer

-$10.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$8.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.50

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 $0.00

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