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

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Ms. Ramirez's classroom raised $492

How Do You Get Teenage Boys To Read? Easy..Find Great Books!

My students need books they can devour and then come back and ask for more. These include the Hunger Games trilogy, 2 sets of the Full Bluford Series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and more.

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Ms. Ramirez Manual Arts Senior High School
Los Angeles, CA Grades 9-12

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 teenage boys often come with me to the library and look at the expanse of books and say they either "look boring" or "they are all girls books." Although I don't think books always fall in a specific genre, I do know that there are some books that often get the attention of the reluctant ones.

Most of my teenage boys would not consider themselves readers.

Few have found books to open a place of imagination and wonder. A great number of them are more well versed on the latest video games and television programming. Yet, in class, when we do independent reading, boys and girls are equally immersed. The secret, they have good books to choose from. While most students are not familiar with the authors, they know a good story when they hear it, which is why after "book talking" a few popular "boy" books, they are off and running.

My Project

It only takes one book to convince a reluctant readers or a non-reader that they can do it and that they will even like it. The book that will do that for each student is different, which is why the list of books included are also different. They are different genres, as well as reading levels. When my students say, "Ms., do you have another one like this?" after finishing a book, I know that they are ready to keep moving forward.

The best part of having easy access to books and having students share these books with other students is exactly that.

They share what they read and why they read. They also invite others to read. It is not only the students in my classes who ask for books. I have had students from other classes come by and ask about a book or wonder if they could borrow the book a friend just returned. I gladly pass it along, because I know books are meant to be in hands not bookshelves.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

120 students impacted 21 donors
Ms. Ramirez Manual Arts Senior High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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

120 students impacted 21donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Hunger Games Trilogy Boxed Set Suzanne Collins • AKJ Books $39.94 1 $39.94
The Outsiders • AKJ Books $7.39 2 $14.78
Percy Jackson and The Olympians Boxed Set • AKJ Books $14.79 1 $14.79
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (HC) • AKJ Books $10.32 1 $10.32
The Absolutely True Diary Of A Parttime Indian • AKJ Books $8.87 2 $17.74
Blood on My Hands • AKJ Books $12.57 1 $12.57
Can''t Get There From Here • AKJ Books $5.17 1 $5.17
Boot Camp • AKJ Books $5.17 1 $5.17
Forged By Fire • AKJ Books $5.17 2 $10.34
Full Bluford Series (15 Books) • AKJ Books $19.50 2 $39.00
Cirque Du Freak #1: A Living Nightmare • AKJ Books $6.65 2 $13.30
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War • AKJ Books $11.06 2 $22.12
The First Part Last • AKJ Books $5.91 2 $11.82
A Child Called It: One Child''s Courage to Survive • AKJ Books $8.84 2 $17.68
Lost Boy: A Foster Child''s Search for the Love of a Family • AKJ Books $9.58 1 $9.58
The Chronicle of Vladimir Tod • AKJ Books $22.19 2 $44.38
Things Not Seen • AKJ Books $5.17 1 $5.17
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Alvin Schwartz, Brett Helq • AKJ Books $4.43 2 $8.86
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Alvin Schwartz, Brett • AKJ Books $4.43 2 $8.86
I Know What You Did Last Summer Lois Duncan • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
Tyrell • AKJ Books $6.65 2 $13.30
My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King • AKJ Books $15.26 1 $15.26

Materials cost

$346.06

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $31.66

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.19

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$417.91

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$73.75

Total project goal

$491.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $491.66

18 Donors

-$245.83

Donations toward project cost

-$208.96

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$36.87

match offer

-$245.82

Match offer toward project cost

-$208.95

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$36.87

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

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 $0.00

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