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Ms. Fluker from Dorchester, MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Culturally Diverse Books =Empathetic Compassionate Citizens

Help me give my students highly enriched culturally diverse books that will create independent thinkers.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Fluker's classroom raised $629

This project is fully funded

My Project

My students attend the oldest elementary school in the nation, but our school often struggles to provide necessary supplies and classroom materials due to yearly budget cuts. My 4th graders come to my classroom with a diverse range of needs, challenges and experiences, and problems can arise from a lack of understanding about each other's cultures and lives.

My students are from African American, Vietnamese, Cape Verdean, Puerto Rican and Dominican cultures, and they are beginning to become serious readers.

The problem is that our classroom library does not reflect their lives or diversity.

These books will allow me to teach about racial divides in the United States, and how these divides have effected people of color over the years. In addition this will allow me to facilitate more in depth conversations amongst my diverse group of students.

Ms. Fluker Mather 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.

Dorchester, MA 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

25 students impacted 3donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
10 Book Bundle - Lee & Low Anti-Racism Collection (Grades 3-5) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $110.00 1 $110.00
Graphic Universe Collection - 6 Book Set • AKJ Education $47.26 1 $47.26
Series Sampler Collection - Diary of a Wimpy Kid - 4 Book Set • AKJ Education $46.45 1 $46.45
We Were There, Too! Young People in U.S. History • AKJ Education $29.19 1 $29.19
Boxers & Saints Boxed Set • AKJ Education $27.00 1 $27.00
School Trip: A Graphic Novel (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $13.49 2 $26.98
The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $23.39 1 $23.39
New Kid and Class Act: The Box Set (paperback box set) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $23.00 1 $23.00
Call Us What We Carry (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $22.49 1 $22.49
Gaither Sisters Trilogy Box Set (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $21.57 1 $21.57
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
March: Book Three (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $17.99 1 $17.99
March: Book Two (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $17.96 1 $17.96
Who Was the Voice of the People?: Cesar Chavez • AKJ Education $5.83 3 $17.49
Legacy • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
World War II & the Cold War 1940-1960/Graphic U.S. History • AKJ Education $8.72 1 $8.72
Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novels #8: Play It Again, Mozart! • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novels #3: The Coliseum Con • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
The Boston Massacre • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91

Materials cost

$491.84

Vendor shipping charges

 $5.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.38

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$534.22

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$94.27

Total project goal

$628.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $628.49

2 Donors

-$628.49

Donations toward project cost

-$534.22

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$94.27

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