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Ms. Young from Austin, TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Young's classroom raised $1,002

Engaging Environment Where Students WANT to Read and Write!

My students need books (1-2 copies each of 57 titles and 3 copies of "You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys") that they can read and talk about in partnerships. The post-it notes will help them gather their thoughts to have meaningful conversations about books.

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Ms. Young Ojeda Middle School
Austin, TX Grades 6-8

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

"Ms., this book is LIVE!" Most of my students have now found a way to love reading their own books. Now comes the next step. Having important discussions about books with each other. My students and I want to try partnerships and book clubs this year. We need multiple copies of books!

My students are the some of the most honest individuals I know.

They have several deficit labels placed upon them. Labels that don't affect their attitudes at all. 8th graders are on the brink of high school. A place that will easily determine whether or not they are a successful adult. I want my students to be successful. All of them. I want them to be able to have important conversations about books, with the hopes that they can connect their books to themselves, their community, and their world. I want them to leave 8th grade knowing their place in this world.

My Project

The books I have listed deal with issues like suicide, race, gender, social development, drugs, gangs, and poverty. My students will learn strategies and behaviors readers have to write, read, and talk about texts and the issues in them. By the end of the school year, the hope is that my students will be able to self-initiate these behaviors and make a positive difference in the world they live in.

Since I'm trying to prove to my students they have a place, an importance, in this world, your donation will make a big difference.

My students will be able to see their are people outside of our school and state that WANT them to be successful young adults.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

175 students impacted 10 donors
Ms. Young Ojeda Middle School Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Austin, TX 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

175 students impacted 10donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Game • AKJ Books $7.01 2 $14.02
3 Nbs Of Julian Drew • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Bad • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Bruiser Neal Shusterman • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
Before I Fall • AKJ Books $14.03 2 $28.06
Boot Camp • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Kendra Coe Booth • AKJ Books $7.01 2 $14.02
Luna • AKJ Books $6.23 1 $6.23
Brothers Torres, The • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Twisted • AKJ Books $7.79 2 $15.58
Tyrell • AKJ Books $7.01 2 $14.02
We Were Here Matt de la Pena • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Willow: It''s Hard to Keep a Secret When it''s Written All Ove • AKJ Books $7.01 2 $14.02
Will Grayson, Will Grayson John Green, David Levithan • AKJ Books $14.03 2 $28.06
What Happened to Cass McBride? Gail Giles • AKJ Books $6.23 2 $12.46
Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in • AKJ Books $13.22 1 $13.22
Tough Boy • AKJ Books $17.96 1 $17.96
Chicken Soup for the Soul Teens Talk High School • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI • AKJ Books $7.01 2 $14.02
No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row • AKJ Books $14.03 2 $28.06
Pedro & Me • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
A Hero Ain''t Nothin'' but a Sandwich • AKJ Books $4.67 2 $9.34
A Solitary Blue Cynthia Voigt • AKJ Books $5.45 2 $10.90
Angry Management Chris Crutcher • AKJ Books $13.25 2 $26.50
After Tupac and D Foster • AKJ Books $6.23 2 $12.46
At Risk Jacqueline Guest • AKJ Books $7.76 2 $15.52
Back Norah McClintock • AKJ Books $7.76 2 $15.52
Begging for Change • AKJ Books $6.23 2 $12.46
Beautiful Creatures Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl • AKJ Books $14.03 1 $14.03
Black Box Julie Schumacher • AKJ Books $6.23 1 $6.23
Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, • AKJ Books $7.79 1 $7.79
Breaking Point • AKJ Books $7.01 2 $14.02
Can''t Get There From Here • AKJ Books $5.45 2 $10.90
Bull Rider Suzanne Morgan Williams • AKJ Books $6.23 2 $12.46
Brothers in Arms • AKJ Books $3.11 2 $6.22
Cuba 15 • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Dark Dude • AKJ Books $7.79 2 $15.58
Diamonds in the Shadows (PB) • AKJ Books $6.98 1 $6.98
Face Relations: Eleven Stories About Seeing Beyond Color (Hardcover) • AKJ Books $14.81 1 $14.81
Fat Kid Rules the World • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Forged by Fire (HB) • AKJ Books $14.03 1 $14.03
Freewill Chris Lynch • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Give A Boy A Gun • AKJ Books $5.45 2 $10.90
It Ain''t All for Nothin'' • AKJ Books $5.45 2 $10.90
La Linea • AKJ Books $6.23 2 $12.46
Mercy On These Teenage Chimps • AKJ Books $5.42 1 $5.42
My Dad''s a Punk • AKJ Books $6.20 1 $6.20
Muchacho LouAnne Johnson • AKJ Books $12.47 1 $12.47
Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems about Love Pat Mora • AKJ Books $12.47 2 $24.94
Amiri and Odette: A Love Story Walter Dean Myers, Javaka Ste • AKJ Books $14.03 1 $14.03
A Fire in My Hands: Revised and Expanded Edition • AKJ Books $12.48 1 $12.48
You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys • AKJ Books $5.45 3 $16.35
33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women''s History • AKJ Books $10.10 1 $10.10
Crap: A Teen''s Guide to Dealing with Stuff That Stinks Erin • AKJ Books $8.96 1 $8.96
I Can''t Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famou • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Goal!: The Dream Begins Robert Rigby, Random House U. K. Ltd • AKJ Books $5.42 2 $10.84
GOAL! II: Living the Dream Robert Rigby • AKJ Books $5.42 2 $10.84
NOTE PST-IT4X6RLD 3PK ULT • ABC School Supply, Inc $9.97 1 $9.97
PAD POST-IT 4X6 3 NE • ABC School Supply, Inc $10.25 2 $20.50
POST-IT NOTE 4X4 LINED SUPR-STIKY ULTRA 90/PD PACK OF 6 • ABC School Supply, Inc $12.82 2 $25.64
POST-IT NOTES SUPER STICKY RECYCLED 4'' X 6'' PACK OF 3 • ABC School Supply, Inc $12.91 2 $25.82

Materials cost

$796.32

Vendor shipping charges

 $8.19

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.94

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$851.45

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$150.26

Total project goal

$1,001.71

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,001.71

8 Donors

-$1,001.71

Donations toward project cost

-$851.45

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$150.26

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