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Ms. Ata from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Filling Our Bookshelves & Our Minds!

Help me give my students a variety of texts to read for independent reading!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Ata's classroom raised $616

This project is fully funded

My Students

Every day, my students find different ways to show me how wonderful they are as human beings. Together, we go on a journey learning about each other and ourselves. Our classroom is a space to explore what we already know and what we have yet to learn.

Literature and language are our gateways into worlds unknown—our tools for figuring life out.

We've explored the devastation of the American soldier experience in The Things They Carried, questioned our identities while reading The Woman Warrior, and catechized the norms of society while reading The White Tiger. We've found truths about the world and ourselves through poetry, analysis, and creative writing.

My students travel anywhere from ten minutes to two hours to get to their school, which is located in one of the roughest and least-resourced neighborhoods in Chicago. They go on this trek every day in order to learn and to better themselves, and they bring along with them all that they embody - their families, hardships, beliefs, and hearts. At one of the most academically challenging schools in our city, our students epitomize success and will be the pillars of this generation's success.

My Project

This year, we started independent reading on a daily basis in class. No matter what we are working on, we always start class with about 20 minutes of independent reading time. I have never seen students so excited to read.

Students who were convinced that they hated reading are now asking me for more and more books.

In fact, the books I have requested here is a list curated by my own students.

Teenagers can so easily get engulfed in their own crazy worlds and need a place to escape. They are finding that books are the best escapes, and I want to make sure that they are getting every chance I can possibly give them.

Ms. Ata Lindblom Math Science Academy Grades 9-12

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.

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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

145 students impacted 2donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Legacy of Orisha Series, 2-Book Set • Amazon Business $39.99 1 $39.99
Cockroach: A Novel • Amazon Business $21.95 1 $21.95
The Startup Wife: A Novel • Amazon Business $18.79 1 $18.79
The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me • Amazon Business $18.47 1 $18.47
Harlem Shuffle: A Novel • Amazon Business $18.04 1 $18.04
Sensor (Junji Ito) • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Vagabond, Vol. 1 (VIZBIG Edition) • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
The Guest List: A Novel • Amazon Business $17.26 1 $17.26
The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic • Amazon Business $17.03 1 $17.03
Where the Crawdads Sing • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
House in the Cerulean Sea • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
Snow Crash • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Girl A: A Novel • Amazon Business $14.45 1 $14.45
A Clockwork Orange • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
Life After Death: A Novel • Amazon Business $13.50 1 $13.50
The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext • Amazon Business $12.52 1 $12.52
Salt Houses • Amazon Business $11.52 1 $11.52
November 9: A Novel • Amazon Business $11.27 1 $11.27
And the Mountains Echoed • Amazon Business $11.10 1 $11.10
No Longer Human • Amazon Business $11.04 1 $11.04
One of Us Is Lying • Amazon Business $11.00 1 $11.00
Parasyte 1 • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Prodigy • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Allegedly • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Five Feet Apart • Amazon Business $10.57 1 $10.57
Ugly Love: A Novel • Amazon Business $10.19 1 $10.19
Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 1 (1) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Coldest Winter Ever: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
It Ends with Us: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.56 1 $9.56
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.42 1 $9.42
The Nightingale: A Novel • Amazon Business $8.28 1 $8.28
I Am the Messenger • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
She Wanted It All: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and a Texas Millionaire (Avon True Crime) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Nine Stories • Amazon Business $7.89 1 $7.89
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Catcher in the Rye • Amazon Business $5.21 1 $5.21
The Art Of War • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$486.09

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.29

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$523.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$92.36

Total project goal

$615.74

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $615.74

1 Donor

-$307.87

Donations toward project cost

-$261.69

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.18

match offer

-$307.87

Match offer toward project cost

-$261.69

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.18

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 $0.00

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