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Ms. McKinney from Richmond CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Fantasy for Fun

Help me give my students this incredible, engaging book for our fantasy unit!

  • $938 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! 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.

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My 8th grade students are incredibly talented, intelligent, brave, resilient, loving, and kind people. They have a thirst for knowledge and education that far outweighs what we are able to provide at our Title 1 school. Out of my 60 students, 6 are English learners, 3 of those having just moved to the US. My students love literature and always take advantage of my personal book request form so they can continue to read and grow. They will absolutely love this book.

My Project

This project is important to me because I am a firm believer in exposing my students to books they wouldn’t necessarily read by themselves. Our next unit is a fantasy unit, and I wanted to provide a book where students see themselves, but in a way that exposes them to troubles, they may not encounter every day. The author, Tomi Adeyemi, compares the struggles of her main characters to the struggles of many black and Latino people, and she does so in a way that prompts the reader to dig deeper. My students appreciate challenging work such as this. This would help my students to grow in reading literature while being engaged.

Ms. McKinney
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Children of Blood and Bone • AKJ Education $13.86 50 $693.00

Materials cost

$693.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $63.41

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.40

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$796.81

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$140.61

Total project goal

$937.42

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $937.42

21 Donors

-$858.89

Donations toward project cost

-$733.06

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$125.83

match offer

-$75.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$63.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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 $0.00

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