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Ms. AIKENS from Houston, TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Class Library Books

Help me give my students to love books and fall in love with reading!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. AIKENS's classroom raised $586

This project is fully funded

My Project

I am looking for books for my classroom library. The books that I have are currently out of date and very worn. My students need books that have faces that look like them. They need to be able to relate to stories they are reading.

By funding this project you will help kids to fall in love with reading.

They will be able to relate to the characters they are reading about. The stories will help them to understand not only their full potential with characters that have similar backgrounds. But they will see a future brighter than they world they currently live.

Ms. AIKENS A.G. Hilliard Elementary School Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
5 Book Bundle: Graphic Novels #3 - Underrepresented Authors (book set) White Bird, Ain't Burned All Bright, Run, They Called Us Enemy, Long Way Down • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $90.00 1 $90.00
5 Book Bundle: Graphic Novels #2 - Underrepresented Authors (paperback book set) - Break, Amelia Aierwood: Basic Witch, Four Eyes, Invisible, Duel • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $75.00 1 $75.00
4 Book Bundle: Graphic Novels #1 - Underrepresented Authors (paperback book set) - American Born Chinese, Mexikid, Frizzy, When Stars Are Scattered • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $60.00 1 $60.00
A Day With No Words (neurodiversity hardcover picture book; social emotional learning; underrepresented authors) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family (hardcover picture book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $17.00 1 $17.00
Fast Pitch (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Last Stop on Market Street Awards - Caldecott Honor Book (hardcover picture book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
The Poet X (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
We Are Water Protectors - Caldecott Medal Winner (hardcover picture book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $14.39 1 $14.39
The Story of Simone Biles (paperback biography; Team USA 2024 Olympics Gold Medalist, women's gymnastics) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
The Story of Frida Kahlo (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
The ABCs of Black History (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
New Kid (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $11.69 1 $11.69
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls Rights (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Other Words for Home (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Esperanza Rising (YA paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Brown Girl Dreaming (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $9.89 1 $9.89
The Name Jar (paperback picture book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $9.00 1 $9.00
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09

Materials cost

$455.25

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.02

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$498.10

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$87.90

Total project goal

$586.00

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $586.00

3 Donors

-$194.75

Donations toward project cost

-$167.04

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.71

match offer

-$389.48

Match offer toward project cost

-$331.06

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.42

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.77

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