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Ms. Alba from Salt Lake City, UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Culturally Relevant Books for a Culturally Diverse Classroom

Help me give my students a more diverse, exciting, and inclusive classroom library!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Alba's classroom raised $964

This project is fully funded

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 Students

My 5th-grade students come from many diverse backgrounds, with more than 80 percent speaking English as a second language. My students speak a variety of languages at home, including Spanish, Arabic, Tongan, Burmese, Somali, Vietnamese, and more! More than 95% of my students receive free lunch and are met with unique challenges of living in poverty on a daily basis. Despite these hardships, these children work hard to overcome these challenges and learn.

These children are happy, loving, hard-working, inquisitive, creative, eager to learn, and excited to be at school.

My Project

My students need more books for our classroom library! I work hard to instill a love of reading in my students, and that requires a lot of books!

Research has shown that children connect with literature more if they are able to see themselves represented in the characters and settings of the books.

The collection of books I am asking for are inclusive, culturally relevant to students, and will engage them in their many interests.

With your help, we can foster a life-long love of reading in these students with books that show them that they are capable of achieving their dreams, despite their hardships.

Ms. Alba Edison Elementary School Grades 3-5

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.

Salt Lake City, UT View local requests

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

25 students impacted 15donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The One and Only Ivan • Amazon Business $8.99 18 $161.82
Scholastic News, Grade 4 (min. 10 subscriptions per order) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $5.75 25 $143.75
The Day You Begin • Amazon Business $14.58 1 $14.58
Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes • Amazon Business $13.37 1 $13.37
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop • Amazon Business $13.37 1 $13.37
Dreamers • Amazon Business $13.29 1 $13.29
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $13.26 1 $13.26
Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
Carmela Full of Wishes • Amazon Business $12.75 1 $12.75
The Last Kids on Earth and the Midnight Blade • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
Skeleton Tree • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Ayobami and the Names of the Animals • Amazon Business $11.86 1 $11.86
The Season of Styx Malone • Amazon Business $11.72 1 $11.72
Merci Suárez Changes Gears • Amazon Business $11.70 1 $11.70
Best Friends • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut (Denene Millner Books) • Amazon Business $11.43 1 $11.43
Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop (Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent) • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
DKfindout! Human Body • Amazon Business $10.71 1 $10.71
Apocalypse Taco • Amazon Business $10.52 1 $10.52
Piecing Me Together • Amazon Business $10.48 1 $10.48
Julián Is a Mermaid • Amazon Business $10.40 1 $10.40
Edison Beaker, Creature Seeker: The Night Door • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Pablo and Birdy • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Guts • Amazon Business $9.62 1 $9.62
Ice Cream Summer (An Orchard Novel) • Amazon Business $9.48 1 $9.48
Science Comics: Cars: Engines That Move You • Amazon Business $9.20 1 $9.20
Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls: From the Creator of Captain Underpants (Dog Man #7) • Amazon Business $9.11 1 $9.11
Revenge of the Star Survivors • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Boy-Crazy Stacey (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novel #7): A Graphix Book (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix) • Amazon Business $8.36 1 $8.36
What Is the Story of Wonder Woman? • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
What Is the Story of The Wizard of Oz? • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
What Is the Story of Frankenstein? • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Adventures with Waffles • Amazon Business $6.21 1 $6.21
Firegirl • Amazon Business $6.00 1 $6.00
Who Was Henry Ford? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Steve Jobs? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Where Is the Serengeti? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Is Oprah Winfrey? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Mister Rogers? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Mother Teresa? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Queen Elizabeth? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
What Is the Story of Scooby-Doo? • Amazon Business $5.61 1 $5.61
Who Is Michael Jordan? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
Who Was Napoleon? • Amazon Business $5.01 1 $5.01
Who Is Pele? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.01 1 $5.01
What Is NASA? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $5.01 1 $5.01
Who Was Che Guevara? • Amazon Business $5.01 1 $5.01
Who Was Norman Rockwell? • Amazon Business $5.01 1 $5.01
What Was the Vietnam War? • Amazon Business $5.01 1 $5.01

Materials cost

$763.18

Vendor shipping charges

 $14.38

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.45

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$819.01

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$144.53

Total project goal

$963.54

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $963.54

14 Donors

-$696.00

Donations toward project cost

-$627.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$68.40

match offer

-$225.19

Match offer toward project cost

-$191.41

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.78

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$42.35

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