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Ms. Bane from Los Angeles, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Vibrant Students Need Mirrors and Windows in Classroom Library

Help me give my students new and relevant choices in our classroom library!

  • $294 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 Project

Our school is full of excited, vociferous readers. However, we are a small school, and so we do not have a school library. As one of our five English teachers, my classroom library often operates as a library for students of all grade levels to come and select books.

Students are constantly asking for new books because they quickly read their way through the library's current selection.

I do what I can to support their reading habits by buying books out-of-pocket, but I want to provide them with more choices from new and exciting authors. I also want to make sure they have both mirrors (characters and stories that represent them and their backgrounds) and windows (characters and stories that represent a wide-range of experiences outside of my students' own experiences).

In particular, I've selected books that represent diverse experience, showing complex portrayals of race, gender, class, LGBTQ+ populations, and more. I hope you'll join in supporting my students in helping them access these wonderful books.

Ms. Bane Alliance Smidt Technology 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. Bane

Los Angeles, 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Home Field Advantage • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Boys I Know • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Ophelia After All • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Dragon Hoops • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
I Kissed Shara Wheeler: A Novel • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
The Gilded Ones • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
A Magic Steeped in Poison (The Book of Tea, 1) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Concrete Rose • Amazon Business $13.87 1 $13.87
All My Rage: A Novel • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
The Poet X • Amazon Business $11.29 1 $11.29
Furia • Amazon Business $10.23 1 $10.23
My Dearest Darkest: Sapphic Horror • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89

Materials cost

$198.19

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $18.13

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.97

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$249.29

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$43.99

Total project goal

$293.28

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $293.28

6 Donors

-$205.78

Donations toward project cost

-$174.92

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.86

Matching donations from our partners

-$87.50

Match offers toward project cost

-$74.38

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.12

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