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

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High-Interest Young Adult Non-fiction Books

Help me give my students access to high interest nonfiction, informational books! Some of these books will provide students with guidance for change-making, while other books will share little-known history and experiences.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Albarran's classroom raised $539

This project is fully funded

My Students

My middle school enthusiastic, creative, bright individuals and they are enthusiastic about reading and sharing their reading with others. My school's 6th, 7th and 8th graders are readers that get excited about new books!

All kids deserve to find books they can connect to; the best part of my job is seeing kids get excited about a book, especially kids who thought they hated reading.

Our school library reflects the student population, and includes lots of books about people that are Black, Latinx and other people of color, kids who are differently-abled, kids from a range of social, economic, and religious backgrounds, LGBTQIA kids, immigrants, and refugees, etc. My students also love reading humor, graphic novels, thrillers, and books that have been made into TV shows and movies.

My Project

Informational texts become increasingly important as children progress through school, and yet children in early grades have very few options for appropriate non-fiction books or non-fiction books that represent a wide diversity of experiences or historical events.

Non-fiction books provide young adults with information, new perspectives, and life skills that can be used to address challenges in their lives.

My students deserve to be educated on these topics now more than ever! YA nonfiction books stand out is that they’re often on exciting or interesting topics and they’re written in the same style that makes YA fiction so appealing.

Ms. Albarran Walt Disney Magnet School Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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

390 students impacted 14donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dragon Hoops • Amazon Business $13.99 2 $27.98
Space!: The Universe as You've Never Seen It Before (Knowledge Encyclopedias) • Amazon Business $19.01 1 $19.01
Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Sarah Bernhardt: The Divine and Dazzling Life of the World’s First Superstar • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
One Earth: People of Color Protecting Our Planet • Amazon Business $16.63 1 $16.63
When Stars Are Scattered • Amazon Business $15.39 1 $15.39
The Great Nijinsky: God of Dance • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World • Amazon Business $14.69 1 $14.69
The Women Who Caught The Babies: A Story of African American Midwives • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
Chasing Space Young Readers' Edition • Amazon Business $14.00 1 $14.00
Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
The Oracle Code • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Go with the Flow • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship" • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America • Amazon Business $13.39 1 $13.39
Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Above and Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World • Amazon Business $12.08 1 $12.08
Redwood and Ponytail: (Novels for Preteen Girls, Children’s Fiction on Social Situations, Fiction Books for Young Adults, LGBTQ Books, Stories in Verse) • Amazon Business $12.02 1 $12.02
Flowers in the Gutter: The True Story of the Edelweiss Pirates, Teenagers Who Resisted the Nazis • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
When the Stars Wrote Back: Poems • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Supernova • Amazon Business $11.95 1 $11.95
Biddy Mason Speaks Up (Fighting for Justice) • Amazon Business $11.83 1 $11.83
Girls Resist!: A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution • Amazon Business $11.77 1 $11.77
Normal: One Kid's Extraordinary Journey • Amazon Business $10.59 1 $10.59

Materials cost

$421.28

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.32

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$457.60

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$80.75

Total project goal

$538.35

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $538.35

11 Donors

-$276.46

Donations toward project cost

-$235.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.09

match offer

-$261.45

Match offer toward project cost

-$222.23

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.22

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.45

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 $0.00

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