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Mx. Moran from Kalamazoo, MI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Expanding Literature for a Middle Grade Classroom

Help me give my students a more expensive library of diverse and own voices books to choose from.

  • $680 goal

This project expired on July 5, 2024.

This project expired on July 5, 2024.

My Project

I am a Special Education teacher who teaches at a diverse school with many low-income students. I use a website called BookSource to catalog all my classroom books and allow students to borrow them while still keeping track of who has what. The website has incredible features that track how well you are doing with diversifying your library. Looking at this function, I discovered that the diverse & own voice collection we received from our district just wasn't as expansive as I expected it to be.

According to the data in BookSource, I found that our classroom library is falling short on Autistic representation, Asian representation, Indigenous representation, and Latinx representation.

I also do not have nearly enough nonfiction titles to choose from.

Due to this, and the amount of my own money that has already gone to my classroom library, I am coming to DonorsChoose to expand my classroom library further! Please help my middle school students get the books they need to both expand their world view and see themselves on the pages.

Mx. Moran Hillside Middle School Grades 6-8

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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

Never Before Funded 12 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
A Kids Book About Empathy - social emotional learning collection (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
A Kids Book About Being Inclusive - social emotional learning collection (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
A Kids Book About Racism (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
A Kids Book About Diversity (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
A Kids Book About Pride (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks - Adapted for Young People (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
A Kids Book About Anger - social emotional learning collection (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America • Amazon Business $19.97 1 $19.97
Mockingbird • Amazon Business $17.27 1 $17.27
The Spectrum Girl's Survival Guide • Amazon Business $16.89 1 $16.89
On These Magic Shores • Amazon Business $15.55 1 $15.55
Rain Reign • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
Moonflower • Amazon Business $14.52 1 $14.52
Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism • Amazon Business $13.19 1 $13.19
The Magic Fish • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Story of Frida Kahlo (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
The Story of Selena Quintanilla (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
The Story of Ruby Bridges (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
Sylvia Mendez: Civil Rights Activist (Our Voices: Spanish and Latino Figures of American History) • Amazon Business $11.75 1 $11.75
Children of Stardust • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Teen Trailblazers: 30 Fearless Girls Who Changed the World Before They Were 20 • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
The Complete Story of Sadako Sasaki: and the Thousand Paper Cranes • Amazon Business $10.69 1 $10.69
The Last Mapmaker • Amazon Business $10.32 1 $10.32
Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls Rights (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Hurricane Child (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Pippa Park Raises Her Game (1) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Asian American Women in Science: An Asian American History Book for Kids (Biographies for Kids) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Pippa Park Crush at First Sight (2) • Amazon Business $9.39 1 $9.39
Genesis Begins Again • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Show Us Who You Are • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $8.69 1 $8.69
Tornado Brain • Amazon Business $8.27 1 $8.27
Life in Motion: Unlikely Ballerina Young Readers Edition (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Never Too Young!: 50 Unstoppable Kids Who Made a Difference • Amazon Business $8.01 1 $8.01
Planet Earth Is Blue • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Benefits of Being an Octopus: A Novel • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Year I Flew Away • Amazon Business $7.49 1 $7.49
A Whole New Ballgame: A Rip and Red Book (Rip and Red, 1) • Amazon Business $7.29 1 $7.29
The Story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse • Amazon Business $6.90 1 $6.90
Al Capone Does My Shirts • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Who Was Anne Frank? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37

Materials cost

$525.62

Vendor shipping charges

 $14.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$577.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$101.91

Total project goal

$679.41

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