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Ms. D. from LA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Class Set of a Book for Struggling High School Readers

My students need 40 copies (a class set) of "Ask Me No Questions" by Marina Budhos

  • $481 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

Invisible and transitory- my students after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. I teach High School English to classroom where the majority of the students are about four years behind their grade level.

These students were dealing with horrific problems before Katrina: severe poverty, broken families, and a community marked by violence and drugs. After Katrina, they now deal with the additional hardships of a displaced community and literally becoming "invisible" to the state through the loss or destruction of their permanent records.

Marina Budhos book, "Ask Me No Questions," looks at how a young Pakistani girl finds identity in a new country as she struggles with issues of race, displacement, and a broken family. It teaches how she overcomes her obstacles to give back to her community, the exact same thing we're trying to teach our High School students. While the school I work at is over 99% African-American, this book will help them examine their own issues while exposing them to problems of another racial sub-group (and they've frequently asked me for books that "aren't about us").

I only have a class-set of an outdated Literature text book. To have a book that's both relevant and high interest will help motivate my class to read, and hopefully continue the healing in a community which has suffered so much already.

Ms. D.
Grades 9-12
  • G W Carver Preparatory Academy
  • New Orleans, LA

    • This project will reach 120 students.

    3 donors have given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Ask Me No Questions Marina Budhos • Barnes and Noble $8.09 40 $323.60

Materials cost

$323.60

Vendor shipping charges

 $32.36

Sales tax

 $12.94

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.09

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$394.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$86.49

Total project goal

$480.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $480.49

2 Donors

-$231.53

Donations toward project cost

-$196.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$34.73

match offer

-$232.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$190.24

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.76

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.47

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 $0.00

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