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Ms. Fallone from Kansas City MO is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Building an Extra Lit Literature Corner

Help me give my students the multilingual, multi-genre classroom library that they deserve! All students should have easy access to books that excite and inspire them.

  • $664 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are 99% POC and low-income children attending a neighborhood public high school. Our classroom is extremely diverse; we have students from every corner of the globe, belonging to every major religion, and at all levels of English proficiency. Our neighborhood and the students we serve are beautiful and unique but face significant challenges. Gun violence, poverty, police brutality, lack of affordable housing, food deserts, unemployment, and language barriers put immense stress on our community.

Many of our students will be the first in their families to graduate high school, and some are even the first in their families to be able to read and write.

As a result, our kids care deeply about attaining a quality education. Unfortunately, many have to work long hours, be responsible for younger family members, or prioritize other activities outside the classroom in order to support their families.

In spite of all this, we still have students showing up at 6:50am ready to learn and grow. They quite literally deserve the world.

My Project

In my 9th grade English classroom, many of my students are struggling to read at the level required for long-term academic success. Rather than drilling students on short passages and multiple choice reading comprehension quizzes, I believe strongly that independent reading is the best tool for improving literacy and increasing engagement.

Kids from low-income and marginalized backgrounds have so many choices taken away from them - allowing students to choose books from a library filled with graphic novels, special interest books, and Spanish novels puts the choice of which literacy tool they want to engage with back in their hands.

When students browse sites like Netflix and Youtube, they are able to easily select content where their interests, ethnicity, race, age group, and home languages are represented. This rarely transfers into searching through the books in the back of an English teacher's classroom.

I have seen the instant excitement when I show kids the few books in my small, second-year teacher library in which the characters or authors feel familiar. Books like The Hate U Give and Pet lead to huge smiles and jealous peers. With support for this project, all of my students could experience that same curiosity, excitement, and satisfaction right in our classroom.

Ms. Fallone
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
Clap When You Land • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
The Crossover (Graphic Novel) (The Crossover Series) • Amazon Business $7.99 2 $15.98
This Was Our Pact • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
All American Boys • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
Stranger Things: The Other Side (Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $14.38 1 $14.38
Tristan Strong Keeps Punching (A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 3) (Tristan Strong, 3) • Amazon Business $14.17 1 $14.17
This One Summer • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
American Born Chinese • Amazon Business $13.19 1 $13.19
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
We Are Okay • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Anya's Ghost • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Watchmen (2019 Edition) • Amazon Business $12.74 1 $12.74
Illegal: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $12.11 1 $12.11
The Giver (Graphic Novel) (1) (Giver Quartet) • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Miles Morales: Shock Waves (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $11.04 1 $11.04
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
James y el melocotón gigante (James and the Giant Peach) • AKJ Education $10.18 1 $10.18
Gracias a Winn-Dixie (Because Of Winn-Dixie) • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 1) (Tristan Strong, 1) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
American Street • AKJ Education $8.75 1 $8.75
La Casa en Mango Street (The House on Mango Street) • AKJ Education $8.72 1 $8.72
Stargirl (Spanish Edition) • AKJ Education $8.72 1 $8.72
Tristan Strong Destroys the World (A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 2) (Tristan Strong, 2) • Amazon Business $8.28 1 $8.28
Monster • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Everything, Everything • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Piecing Me Together • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
How It Went Down • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Whale Talk • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Tomando Partido (Taking Sides) • AKJ Education $7.99 1 $7.99
Miles Morales: Spider-Man • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Does My Head Look Big in This? • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Patina (Track #2) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Lu (Track #4) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Sunny (Track #3) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Ghost (Track #1) (PB) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Mexican WhiteBoy • AKJ Education $6.99 1 $6.99
Slam! • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Eighth Grade Bites #1 The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Walk Two Moons • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
Speak • AKJ Education $6.14 1 $6.14
Bless Me, Ultima • AKJ Education $5.84 1 $5.84
Senderos fronterizos (Breaking Through) • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Jacob Have I Loved • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Unstoppable • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
When My Name Was Keoko • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Running Out Of Time • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One: The Lightning Thief • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
The City of Ember • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
A Long Walk to Water • AKJ Education $5.28 1 $5.28
Taste of Salt • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10

Materials cost

$513.12

Vendor shipping charges

$13.00

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$563.82

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$99.50

Total project goal

$663.32

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$663.32

5 Donors

-$329.30

Donations toward project cost

-$283.91

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$45.39

match offer

-$329.31

Match offer toward project cost

-$279.91

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$49.40

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.71

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$0.00

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