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Ms. Decker from Kissimmee FL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

And the Award Goes to... These Books!

Help me give my students some amazing award winning 2021 books and novels.

  • $451 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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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

Our community is in a very diversely-populated part of Kissimmee, Florida. Our community has a lot of immigrants, mixed households, English Language Learners, and families who have to work a lot longer hours to support their families. For many of our students, school is their safe place where they can just be kids.

Our students are eager to learn and overcome the challenges they face at home, academically, and socially.

Our school is limited in funding that comes to the media center, and as the new media specialist, I want the media center to reflect our student population and curate a collection that is as diverse as the students in our school.

The media center is widely used for tutoring before and after school, for class projects, for testing, and more. Students are in and out of the media center all the time, and I would like to see more of them browsing the bookshelves and be able to find books that they love. I also am creating a makerspace that will help engage them in other activities to have them grow and inspire them to make things, think analytically, think creatively, and explore.

My Project

The 2022 ALA awards were given out this week for 2021 book releases. Some amazing middle grade and middle school books were given awards such as the Newbery Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Schneider Family Book Awards, among others. Books that are awarded these titles are read by a committee of professionals who read hundreds of selections to select the best book to give these honors and medals to. As a whole, these awards are meant to represent diverse populations, and honor authors who work to make sure children are getting quality literature that provides mirrors, windows, and doors.

Having up to date quality literature is one of the main jobs of a school media specialist, so having copies of these books is important to the overall representation of the library collection.

Our students love to see new books, and they often relate better to new release books, than older books on the shelves. I would love to get this set of books and throw a book tasting for my students surrounding these awards, and let them in on how ALA selects awards, and why each of these titles was selected for the award it won.

Ms. Decker
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Too Bright to See • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Red, White, and Whole • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
A Bird Will Soar • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
A Snake Falls to Earth • Amazon Business $15.87 1 $15.87
Temple Alley Summer • Amazon Business $15.82 1 $15.82
Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield (Medical Fiascoes) • Amazon Business $15.36 1 $15.36
Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown • Amazon Business $15.30 1 $15.30
Child of the Flower-Song People: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of the Nahua • Amazon Business $14.79 1 $14.79
A Kind of Spark • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
The Last Cuentista • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero • Amazon Business $14.29 1 $14.29
How to Find What You're Not Looking For • Amazon Business $14.17 1 $14.17
Amina's Song (Amina's Voice) • Amazon Business $14.00 1 $14.00
Almost Flying • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Starfish • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know • Amazon Business $13.80 1 $13.80
Mulan: Before the Sword (Disney Mulan) • Amazon Business $13.77 1 $13.77
Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna • Amazon Business $12.60 1 $12.60
Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued • Amazon Business $12.10 1 $12.10
Stuntboy, in the Meantime • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas • Amazon Business $9.69 1 $9.69
Amina's Voice • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Sea in Winter • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99

Materials cost

$347.34

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.21

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$382.55

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$67.51

Total project goal

$450.06

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $450.06

1 Donor

-$450.06

Donations toward project cost

-$382.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$67.51

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