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Mrs. Aguinaldo-Rios from Santa Clarita, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Continuing Reading at Our Continuation High School!

Help me give my students the library they deserve, full of diverse authors with a wide range of perspectives in both fiction and nonfiction through both conventional and graphic novels.

  • $997 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.

My Project

Our continuation high school does not have a library of its own! All of these books have been chosen with my particular student population in mind. I have worked in this district for years and I now have the privilege of teaching these teens with promise who have persevered through so much.

With these new books, my students will be able to strengthen their language development, their communication skills, and with hope and patience, develop an appreciation for literature.

My current classroom library is being put to work! Students are drawn to check out the titles available, and with these new and varied works, the students' thirst for choices can be satiated. As an EL coordinator and an English teacher, I have chosen books that have topics that interest them, authors of diverse cultural backgrounds, and stories that students can relate to. With the students' interests in mind, and with more practice, our unique population of resilient young adults has the potential to increase their reading abilities and nourish their minds.

Mrs. Aguinaldo-Rios Jereann Bowman High School Grades 9-12

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.

More about Mrs. Aguinaldo-Rios

Santa Clarita, CA View local requests

More than half of 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

110 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Seeing is Believing: Graphic Books for Teens (14 books) • AKJ Education $183.53 1 $183.53
City of Heavenly Fire • AKJ Education $18.24 2 $36.48
Run: Book One • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $25.00 1 $25.00
Call Us What We Carry • MahoganyBooks $22.49 1 $22.49
Ain't Burned All the Bright • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States for Young People • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
They Called Us Enemy • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
A Different Mirror for Young People A History of Multicultural America • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
Blackout • MahoganyBooks $17.99 1 $17.99
We Are Not Free • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $17.00 1 $17.00
When You Trap a Tiger • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
American Like Me • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (PB) • MahoganyBooks $15.30 1 $15.30
One of Us Is Lying • AKJ Education $12.59 1 $12.59
The Motley Fool Investment Guide for Teens • AKJ Education $12.41 1 $12.41
Everything I Never Told You • AKJ Education $12.41 1 $12.41
This Book Is Anti Racist • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
Number the Stars • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
The Bridge Home • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
New Kid • MahoganyBooks $11.69 1 $11.69
Milkweed • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
The Stars Beneath Our Feet • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
City of Ashes • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
Tweak Growing Up on Methamphetamines • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
City of Fallen Angels • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
City of Bones • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
City of Glass • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
City of Lost Souls • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
A Child Called "It" • AKJ Education $10.18 1 $10.18
Ghost Boys • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Harbor Me • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Efrén Divided • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Smashed • AKJ Education $9.35 1 $9.35
Dear Martin • MahoganyBooks $8.99 1 $8.99
Delirium • AKJ Education $8.75 1 $8.75
Eating the Dinosaur • AKJ Education $8.10 1 $8.10
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Make Lemonade • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Things I Should Have Known • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29

Materials cost

$751.57

Vendor shipping charges

$12.00

Sales tax

$41.96

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.27

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$846.80

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$149.44

Total project goal

$996.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$996.24

1 Donor

-$996.24

Donations toward project cost

-$846.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$149.44

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