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Ms. Carissa Smith from Ithaca, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Carissa Smith's classroom raised $996

Fill the LACS Library Shelves

Help me give my students access to lots of high-interest and highly requested books!

This project expired on August 3, 2025.

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Ms. Carissa Smith Lehman Alternative Community School
Ithaca, NY Grades 6-8

My Project

This project is the perfect opportunity for our community to help fill our library's shelves! My goal is to purchase as many books as possible from this list. They have been specifically chosen based on the demographics and requests of my students. Help me continue a culture of reading for LACS!

All of the books selected for this project are from under-represented and diverse voices.

These books will engage my students in reading and expanding their world view; helping them become more compassionate and aware global citizens.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

283 students impacted 5 donors
Ms. Carissa Smith Lehman Alternative Community School Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Ithaca, NY 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

283 students impacted 5donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
6 Book Set: Lee & Low OLDER TEEN Mental Health Bundle #2 (young adult books, ages 16+) YA Books for Classroom Library - social emotional learning • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $90.00 1 $90.00
6 Book Set: Lee & Low OLDER TEEN Mental Health Bundle #1 (young adult books, ages 16+) YA Books for Classroom Library - social emotional learning • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $90.00 1 $90.00
4 Book Set: Graphic Novels #5 - Underrepresented Social Emotional Learning (paperback 12+) Junior High, Crush, Girl Called Echo, My Bilingual Summer • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $80.00 1 $80.00
4 Book Set: Graphic Novels #8 - Underrepresented Stories Social Emotional Learning (paperback, ages 14+ mature) The Talk, Hey Kiddo, Sunshine, Weirdo • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $75.00 1 $75.00
4 Book Set: Raquel Vasquez Gilliland - Sia Martinez & the Moonlit Beginning of Everything, How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $65.00 1 $65.00
4 Book Set: Graphic Novels #6 - Underrepresented Stories in Sports (paperback, ages 8-12) Swim Team, Gamerville, Hoops, Change the Game • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $60.00 1 $60.00
3 Book Set: 2024 Award Winners - The First State of Being, Mid-Air, Wild Dreamers (3 hardcover fiction stories from underrepresented authors) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $52.00 1 $52.00
3 Graphic Novels: HOOKY Volumes 1-3 (paperback book set) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $50.00 1 $50.00
2 Hardcover Book Set: They Both Die at the End & The First to Die at the End (Death-Cast Series, ages 14+, underrepresented authors) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $35.00 1 $35.00
Class Act (paperback graphic novel) x Black Books Matter from MahoganyBooks • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 2 $24.00
Amelia Aierwood: Basic Witch (YA paperback graphic novel) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Thirst (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
An American Story (hardcover picture book, ages 4-8) x Black Books Matter from MahoganyBooks • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell (paperback, autobiography, YA ages 14+) x Black Books Matter from MahoganyBooks • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
We Are Not Free (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $17.00 1 $17.00
The Nickel Boys (paperback, ages 14+ mature content) - books for classroom library • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (YA paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $14.00 1 $14.00
The Cost of Knowing (YA paperback, ages 12+) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $14.00 1 $14.00
Stephen McCranie's Space Boy Omnibus Volume 1 (Stephen McCranie's Space Boy Omnibus Edition) • Amazon Business $13.92 1 $13.92
They Both Die at the End (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
Tokyo Ever After: A Novel (YA paperback) - Reese's Book Club YA Pick • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century • Amazon Business $7.52 1 $7.52

Materials cost

$804.44

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.07

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$846.51

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$149.38

Total project goal

$995.89

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $995.89

4 Donors

-$795.89

Donations toward project cost

-$676.51

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$119.38

match offer

-$200.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$170.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.00

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 $0.00

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