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

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You Can't Be What You Can't Read

Help me give my students a rich and inviting culturally relevant classroom library.

  • $539 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

I am a fourth grade teacher in a elementary school in Los Angeles. The majority of my students are English Language Learners of Hispanic heritage.

My students last year were voracious readers and have torn through almost every book in my small classroom library.

I am creating this project at the behest of one of my students who urged me to get "more interesting books."

As I took inventory of my classroom library at the end of the year, I noticed that not only were my books old and falling apart, the majority of the characters and historical figures referenced were white males and did not represent the experiences of my students or their families.

My Project

"You can't be what you can't see," is a famous quote attributed to Marian Wright Edleman. When my students go into my current classroom library, they do not see themselves represented in the pages of biographies or in the characters of the fiction books that occupy my shelves.

The books I have chosen for my class show Latin people throughout history who have accomplished extraordinary things as well as ordinary characters that share many of the same daily experiences as my students.It is my hope that when my students choose a book from the library, not only do they want to read it but they can see themselves on the pages.

Ms. Jones ICEF Vista Elementary Academy Grades 3-5

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
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition) • Amazon Business $16.46 1 $16.46
The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Commended) • Amazon Business $16.10 1 $16.10
Forest World • Amazon Business $15.38 1 $15.38
Carmela Full of Wishes • Amazon Business $15.03 1 $15.03
Dreamers • Amazon Business $14.98 1 $14.98
Danza!: Amalia Hernández and Mexico's Folkloric Ballet • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours • Amazon Business $14.36 1 $14.36
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale (Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Children's Book Award (Awards)) • Amazon Business $13.51 1 $13.51
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $13.26 1 $13.26
The Distance Between Us: A Memoir • Amazon Business $13.25 1 $13.25
Waiting for the Biblioburro • Amazon Business $13.09 1 $13.09
Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science • Amazon Business $12.46 1 $12.46
Lucia the Luchadora • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Odd and the Frost Giants • Amazon Business $11.48 1 $11.48
Maximilian & the Mystery of the Guardian Angel: A Bilingual Lucha Libre Thriller (Max's Lucha Libre Adventures) • Amazon Business $11.20 1 $11.20
Undocumented: A Worker's Fight • Amazon Business $11.11 1 $11.11
From North to South / Del Norte al Sur • Amazon Business $10.95 1 $10.95
Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish • Amazon Business $10.90 1 $10.90
The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
Yes! We Are Latinos: Poems and Prose About the Latino Experience • Amazon Business $9.07 1 $9.07
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian • Amazon Business $8.78 1 $8.78
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale • Amazon Business $8.64 1 $8.64
The First Rule of Punk • Amazon Business $8.54 1 $8.54
The Secret Footprints • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
What Can You Do with a Paleta / ¿Qué Puedes Hacer con una Paleta? • Amazon Business $7.79 1 $7.79
Return to Sender • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Mango, Abuela, and Me • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Max Loves Muñecas! • Amazon Business $7.00 1 $7.00
Con cariño, Amalia (Love, Amalia) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Stef Soto, Taco Queen • Amazon Business $6.48 1 $6.48
Carlos and the Squash Plant / Carlos y la planta de calabaza (Multilingual Edition) • Amazon Business $6.23 1 $6.23
Stella Diaz Has Something to Say • Amazon Business $5.61 1 $5.61
The Color of My Words • Amazon Business $3.29 1 $3.29

Materials cost

$386.37

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $35.35

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.80

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$457.52

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$80.74

Total project goal

$538.26

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $538.26

3 Donors

-$270.00

Donations toward project cost

-$229.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.50

match offer

-$268.26

Match offer toward project cost

-$228.02

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.24

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