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Ms. Higginbottom from Roxbury MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

A Diverse Library For Diverse Learners

My students need a diverse classroom library to reflect our school's diverse community.

  • $1,478 goal

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My Students

My students attend an inclusive school where all racial, ethnic, linguistic backgrounds, of all economic means, of any gender, or any religion, of any sexual orientation, and of all learning styles, strengths and needs are welcome.

My students are in a high poverty urban setting in Massachusetts.

They attend a school with approximately 250 students. They are eager to learn and are curious and excited about school! My students enjoy reading books that challenge how they see the world around them.

My Project

All students deserve to see themselves in the books they read. As our school community continues to diversify, it is important that students have access to books that reflect them. Books should serve as both a window and a mirror for students into the real world. These books will allow our students to see themselves in the characters they love, allowing all students to make real world connections with the characters in the books they read each day.

These books will give students a wide variety of stories, featuring characters with differences beyond their race and ethnicities.

Diverse books enrich the classroom library and show students that despite their differences, they all share common feelings and aspirations. A diverse classroom library teaches our students to be inclusive and accepting of others that are different than them. These books will allow our school community to continue fostering a truly inclusive school community.

Ms. Higginbottom
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
American Born Chinese • Amazon Business $20.39 3 $61.17
Calling the Water Drum • Amazon Business $17.93 3 $53.79
Inside Out and Back Again • Amazon Business $10.62 5 $53.10
Teacup • Amazon Business $13.78 3 $41.34
My Name Is Sangoel • Amazon Business $12.87 3 $38.61
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Commended) • Amazon Business $12.42 3 $37.26
Brown Girl Dreaming (Newbery Honor Book) • Amazon Business $11.89 3 $35.67
The Crossover • Amazon Business $10.27 3 $30.81
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane • Amazon Business $15.35 2 $30.70
Hiawatha and the Peacemaker • Amazon Business $15.11 2 $30.22
Fly Free! • Amazon Business $14.46 2 $28.92
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $14.45 2 $28.90
The Red Pencil • Amazon Business $9.62 3 $28.86
The Red Piano • Amazon Business $13.86 2 $27.72
One Crazy Summer • Amazon Business $8.18 3 $24.54
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X • Amazon Business $12.19 2 $24.38
Fabiola Konn Konte • Amazon Business $12.00 2 $24.00
Stephen Hawking: Cosmologist Who Gets a Big Bang Out of the Universe (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors & Scientists (Hardcover)) • Amazon Business $23.76 1 $23.76
Mirror • Amazon Business $10.49 2 $20.98
Ghost (Track) • Amazon Business $10.27 2 $20.54
Friends from the Other Side / Amigos del otro lado • Amazon Business $9.95 2 $19.90
Junkyard Wonders • Amazon Business $9.71 2 $19.42
Blackout • Amazon Business $9.66 2 $19.32
Beyond the Ridge • Amazon Business $7.99 2 $15.98
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women • Amazon Business $15.95 1 $15.95
Bright Sky, Starry City • Amazon Business $15.35 1 $15.35
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane • Amazon Business $15.35 1 $15.35
Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings • Amazon Business $14.58 1 $14.58
The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: the Story of Dr. Patricia Bath (Amazing Scientists) • Amazon Business $14.32 1 $14.32
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya • Amazon Business $14.04 1 $14.04
Abuela (English Edition with Spanish Phrases) • Amazon Business $7.02 2 $14.04
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah • Amazon Business $14.00 1 $14.00
Mrs. Katz and Tush (Reading Rainbow) • Amazon Business $6.82 2 $13.64
How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay (The Tia Lola Stories) • Amazon Business $6.64 2 $13.28
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Commended) • Amazon Business $13.18 1 $13.18
The Most Magnificent Thing • Amazon Business $13.16 1 $13.16
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale (Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Children's Book Award (Awards)) • Amazon Business $12.97 1 $12.97
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books) • Amazon Business $12.76 1 $12.76
We Came To America • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
The Year of the Dog (A Pacy Lin Novel) • Amazon Business $6.24 2 $12.48
Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match / Marisol McDonald no combina • Amazon Business $12.44 1 $12.44
Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World • Amazon Business $12.32 1 $12.32
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: the Story of Dr. Temple Grandin (Amazing Scientists) • Amazon Business $12.32 1 $12.32
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa • Amazon Business $12.27 1 $12.27
What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions • Amazon Business $11.86 1 $11.86
Infinity and Me (Carolrhoda Picture Books) • Amazon Business $11.79 1 $11.79
Full Cicada Moon • Amazon Business $11.66 1 $11.66
Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building • Amazon Business $11.63 1 $11.63
Rapunzel • Amazon Business $11.40 1 $11.40
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours • Amazon Business $11.29 1 $11.29
Me, Frida • Amazon Business $11.10 1 $11.10
Darius & Twig • Amazon Business $5.46 2 $10.92
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance • Amazon Business $10.72 1 $10.72
Seeds of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World • Amazon Business $10.47 1 $10.47
All Kinds of Families! • Amazon Business $10.46 1 $10.46
Ruby and the Booker Boys #1: Brand New School, Brave New Ruby • Amazon Business $4.74 2 $9.48
My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden's Childhood Journey • Amazon Business $9.13 1 $9.13
Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin • Amazon Business $9.11 1 $9.11
Yesterday I Had the Blues • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Galimoto (Reading Rainbow Book) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Ambassador • Amazon Business $3.47 2 $6.94
Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel (A Dyamonde Daniel Book) • Amazon Business $4.48 1 $4.48
National Geographic Readers: Ibn al-Haytham: The Man Who Discovered How We See (Readers Bios) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Frida Kahlo? • Amazon Business $3.72 1 $3.72

Materials cost

$1,207.65

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$18.11

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,255.76

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$221.60

Total project goal

$1,477.36

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,477.36

18 Donors

-$1,147.78

Donations toward project cost

-$1,028.23

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$119.55

match offer

-$267.68

Match offer toward project cost

-$227.53

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.15

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$61.90

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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