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Ms. San Miguel from San Antonio, TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Classroom Library Needed!

My students need a variety of 50+ books that appeal to their interests to encourage reluctant and hesitant readers to finish a book.

  • $639 goal

This project expired on January 13, 2014.

This project expired on January 13, 2014.

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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

Imagine your life without books; without that story that took you to a land you could never travel without those pages in your hands. Take away that book that turned you onto reading and encouraged you to read more. That is the life of my students.

I wish I could be that teacher that can sit here and say, "I have all of these students who are just itching to get their hands on some books," but I can't.

If I had a dollar for every time I heard a student say," I don't like to read!" I wouldn't need to post this donation request. My students are looking for that one book that pushes them into the wonderful world of reading. I work in an inner city school, with over 90% of the population on free/reduced lunch. My students (9th grade) come from a variety of backgrounds, many consisting of single parent homes, grandparents acting as parents, one or both parents incarcerated, addicted to painkillers/alcohol, abusive homes, or just parents who have to work two jobs just to get by. My students are putting everything they have into life, and school sometimes isn't their first priority. That isn't their fault, it's just the hand they have been dealt.

My Project

I am asking for books that will appeal to their curiosity and imagination. I want a classroom library. A place that my students can go to READ, and open their minds to escape the world they currently live in. I try so hard to get my students to read, yet I understand that they aren't going to get into something unless it appeals to their interests. I have picked out books that would appeal to that boy in the back of the class who would rather listen to his music than the story we are reading in class. I want my students to LOVE to read. To find that escape from everyday drama and jump into the world an author, they will never meet, has created.

Every English teacher's dream is to have a library at their fingertips.

A place that students can freely pick up a book, read the synopsis on the back, and say, "Hey, can I read this?" as they hold it up towards you. I want to be able to give my freshmen that opportunity. I want to see them so engaged in a book that when the bell rings to go to their next class, none of them move because they would rather continue reading. You can help me achieve that. Your donation can give my students that.

Ms. San Miguel Highlands High School Grades 9-12

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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

150 students impacted

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Matched Trilogy • AKJ Books $39.40 1 $39.40
Favorite Author Study - Walter Dean Myers • AKJ Books $30.30 1 $30.30
Crank Trilogy Boxed Set • AKJ Books $24.08 1 $24.08
The Cartoon History of the Universe II, Volumes 8-13: From t • AKJ Books $17.51 1 $17.51
The Cartoon History of the Universe, Volumes 1-7 Larry Gonic • AKJ Books $16.75 1 $16.75
Stitches • AKJ Books $15.26 1 $15.26
The Homelanders • AKJ Books $14.59 1 $14.59
Flash Michael Cadnum • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
Girl, Stolen • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
Center Field Robert Lipsyte • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
Angry Management Chris Crutcher • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
Jumped • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
Revolver • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
Pop • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
The Perfect Shot • AKJ Books $12.37 1 $12.37
Scary Stories Barry Moser (Illustrator), Peter Glassman (Int • AKJ Books $12.37 1 $12.37
Nancy Garden • AKJ Books $11.83 1 $11.83
Beanball • AKJ Books $11.68 1 $11.68
Maus I : A Survivor''s Tale My Father Bleeds History • AKJ Books $11.64 1 $11.64
Maus II: A Survivor''s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began • AKJ Books $11.64 1 $11.64
The Long Way Home • AKJ Books $10.94 1 $10.94
Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth • AKJ Books $8.95 1 $8.95
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines Nic Sheff • AKJ Books $8.75 1 $8.75
You Don''t Know Me • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Uglies • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Extras • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
The Last Thing I Remember (The Homelanders Series #1) Andrew • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Specials • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Hallway Diaries: How To Be Down\Double Act\The Summer She Le • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Pretties • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Compound • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Dreamland (reissue) • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Lockdown: Escape from Furnace 1 Alexander Gordon Smith • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Reaction Lesley Choyce • AKJ Books $7.26 1 $7.26
Grind Eric Walters • AKJ Books $7.26 1 $7.26
Tweaked • AKJ Books $7.26 1 $7.26
Heart of a Champion • AKJ Books $6.57 1 $6.57
Homeboyz Alan Lawrence Sitomer • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
Cover-up • AKJ Books $5.10 1 $5.10
The Wave • AKJ Books $5.10 1 $5.10
Hatchet (stock) • AKJ Books $5.10 1 $5.10
Code Orange • AKJ Books $5.10 1 $5.10
GOAL! II: Living the Dream Robert Rigby • AKJ Books $5.07 1 $5.07
Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager Beatric • AKJ Books $4.37 1 $4.37
Bitten • AKJ Books $2.50 1 $2.50
Tamar • AKJ Books $2.50 1 $2.50
Slam • AKJ Books $2.50 1 $2.50
Midnight Twins, The • AKJ Books $2.00 1 $2.00
Favoirte Ghost Stories SC • AKJ Books $2.00 1 $2.00
GOAL! The Dream Begins • AKJ Books $2.00 1 $2.00
Last Of The High Kings, The • AKJ Books $2.00 1 $2.00

Materials cost

$505.30

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.58

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$542.88

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$95.80

Total project goal

$638.68

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