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Ms. Reneau from Baltimore MD is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Budding Bookworms!

Help me give my students books that they can see themselves in!

  • $354 goal

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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.

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 Students

Representation matters, even more every day. I am so privileged to work with such a diverse population of students, who come from all different countries, ethnicities and types of families. One thing that all of my students have in common is that their voices, their stories, their thoughts, dreams, and worlds are often viewed as less than.

We are so inspired to have found authors that are now telling stories of people who look like us, live like us, and dream like us.

Thank you for supporting my students in their dreams, for letting them know their voices matter, and their stories have a place.

My Project

I bought my first classroom book, with a hopeful heart but not realizing the impact it would have on my students. It was a children's book, about the life of Maya Angelou, I never would have imagined there would be a wait list to read the book by the end of the week. Two years later I still have children clamoring to read this book.

Maya Angelou once said "You can't use up creativity, The more you use, the more you have.

It is my hope to foster this creativity in my classroom- with each book they read the bounds of their creativity would grow. We are so eager to expand our classroom library to include more books written about diverse people, by diverse people. Thank you for believing in us, for knowing our voices, those of the marginalized, order looked, under-represented, deserve a space too.

Ms. Reneau
Grades 3-5

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Little People, BIG DREAMS: Women in Science: 3 books from the best-selling series! Ada Lovelace - Marie Curie - Amelia Earhart • Amazon Business $23.45 1 $23.45
Be Bold! Be Brave! 11 Latinas who made U.S. History (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $15.14 1 $15.14
Greta Thunberg (Little People, BIG DREAMS) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Turning Pages: My Life Story • Amazon Business $12.39 1 $12.39
Alma and How She Got Her Name • Amazon Business $12.26 1 $12.26
Zaha Hadid (Little People, BIG DREAMS) • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Wilma Rudolph (Little People, BIG DREAMS (33)) • Amazon Business $11.65 1 $11.65
Mother Teresa (Little People, BIG DREAMS (18)) • Amazon Business $11.42 1 $11.42
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Be Bold! Be Brave! Chiquitos (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Little People, BIG DREAMS (41)) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Mahatma Gandhi (Little People, BIG DREAMS (31)) • Amazon Business $10.91 1 $10.91
Harriet Tubman (Little People, BIG DREAMS) • Amazon Business $10.19 1 $10.19
Aliana Reaches for the Moon: A STEAM book for aspiring scientists! • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Stephen Hawking (Little People, BIG DREAMS) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Anne Frank (Little People, BIG DREAMS (15)) • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Georgia O'Keeffe (Little People, BIG DREAMS) • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Muhammad Ali (Little People, BIG DREAMS (26)) • Amazon Business $9.69 1 $9.69
Ella Fitzgerald (Little People, BIG DREAMS) • Amazon Business $8.89 1 $8.89
Jane Goodall (Little People, BIG DREAMS (21)) • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
Josephine Baker (Little People, BIG DREAMS) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99

Materials cost

$248.13

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.99

Sales tax

 $14.89

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.72

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$300.73

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$53.07

Total project goal

$353.80

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $353.80

3 Donors

-$304.48

Donations toward project cost

-$300.73

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$49.32

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

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