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Ms. de Martini from Oakland, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books Like Us

Help me give my students picture books about feelings, homelessness, working hard, and other themes with characters that look like them and celebrate their traditions.

  • $423 goal

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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.

My Project

I was sure there had to be better stories out there than some of the stories our curriculum has been using and we have been on a search to find them. Recently, we read a story called Brave Irene which should teach the lesson of never giving up, but it was a story about a young girl delivering a ball gown in a snowstorm. This book was harmful and we immediately stopped the lesson and had a discussion and wrote about why it wasn’t okay to have this young girl do this.

I promised my students I would look for books to replace some of the harmful books that have been traditionally used in our curriculums and after talking to friends and librarians we were able to find alternatives that are beautiful and teach the same lessons in a much more culturally responsive and beautiful way.

We look forward to having books with characters who look and feel the way we do. We look forward to walking into a classroom and seeing a diversity of kids that reflect our diversity. We look forward to learning about each other.

Ms. de Martini
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
I Can Achieve Anything • Amazon Business $20.07 1 $20.07
Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock (Debwe) • Amazon Business $19.95 1 $19.95
The Many Colors of Harpreet Singh • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Octopus Alone • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
It's So Difficult • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Watercress • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Gibberish • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
How to Solve a Problem: The Rise (and Falls) of a Rock-Climbing Champion • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Lailah's Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story • Amazon Business $15.71 1 $15.71
Still a Family: A Story about Homelessness • Amazon Business $15.69 1 $15.69
Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
Hot Pot Night! • Amazon Business $14.29 1 $14.29
Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Amira's Picture Day • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
How to Apologize • Amazon Business $12.41 1 $12.41
The Field • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
I Can Say No • Amazon Business $9.46 1 $9.46
Superheroes Are Everywhere • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Swimmy • Amazon Business $7.18 1 $7.18
A Chair for My Mother (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$297.63

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $27.23

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.46

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$359.32

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$63.41

Total project goal

$422.73

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $422.73

2 Donors

-$80.91

Donations toward project cost

-$71.86

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.05

match offer

-$338.19

Match offer toward project cost

-$287.46

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$50.73

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.63

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