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Ms. Guerrero, a.k.a. “Ms. G. of the library!” from Bridgeport, CT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Inspiration to Be Brave and Bold: March Book Madness 2020

Help me give my students new books that will inspire them to be brave and bold, especially because the characters look like them.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Guerrero, a.k.a. “Ms. G. of the library!”'s classroom raised $665

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.

My Students

Our pre-k to grade 4 students are wonderfully diverse, curious learners of the 21st Century who live in an urban public school district. Students have been working hard in all areas, especially math, reading, and learning to be respectful of each other.

Our students look forward to being with the caring adults who make up the staff at our school, from school security to principals, to office staff to teachers.

We are a caring community of lifelong learners!

While our school library contains many noteworthy children's books, cuts to the budget have greatly inhibited students from accessing many recently published works by and about people of color. The majority of families are Hispanic and African American. Since my first year as the school library media specialist in 2017, one of my goals has been to build our library to include more books for children to see themselves, get inspired to read and to do great things with their lives. Books change lives. Participating in March Book Madness has provided us with fantastic titles toward this goal. This year’s titles are no exception. With your generous help, students will be inspired by the journeys of characters in these books.

My Project

March Book Madness is about reading books, talking about books and trying to decide how one great book can possibly be better than another great book. Funding this project will enable our school to participate in this fun, international event that inspires children to read and have lively discussions about books. The theme of this year's contest is "Characters who are Brave and Bold." As the school librarian, I look forward to conversations about the journeys of brave and bold characters. This year's MBM Picture Book list includes many books whose main characters and authors are of diverse backgrounds. Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop so aptly expressed the need for diverse books when she said, “Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created or recreated by the author. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of a larger human experience. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books.”

Beyond this event, students and teachers will have access to these picture books that will serve as effective teaching tools for students at all levels.

The books on this list are engaging. They can be used to teach vocabulary, skills of inferring, predicting, using descriptive language, and finding evidence in text and pictures to support students' opinions. This list will offer teachers at my school a resource they can use across various curriculum from writing and history to science and math.

Ms. Guerrero, a.k.a. “Ms. G. of the library!” Blackham School Grades PreK-2

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.

Bridgeport, CT View local requests

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

530 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Mission To Space • Amazon Business $19.95 3 $59.85
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family • Amazon Business $16.19 3 $48.57
The Princess and the Pit Stop • Amazon Business $11.99 3 $35.97
The Undefeated • Amazon Business $8.99 4 $35.96
My Papi Has a Motorcycle • Amazon Business $11.69 3 $35.07
The Journey • Amazon Business $11.61 3 $34.83
Penguin Flies Home (Flight School) • Amazon Business $11.59 3 $34.77
Nobody Likes a Goblin • Amazon Business $16.68 2 $33.36
Mae Among the Stars • Amazon Business $10.98 3 $32.94
The King of Kindergarten • Amazon Business $9.99 3 $29.97
I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon • Amazon Business $14.66 2 $29.32
I Will Be Fierce • Amazon Business $9.59 3 $28.77
Rescue and Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship • Amazon Business $11.88 2 $23.76
Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams • Amazon Business $7.88 3 $23.64
Her Fearless Run: Kathrine Switzer’s Historic Boston Marathon • Amazon Business $11.48 2 $22.96
It's Not Hansel and Gretel (It’s Not a Fairy Tale) • Amazon Business $8.79 2 $17.58

Materials cost

$527.32

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$565.23

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$99.75

Total project goal

$664.98

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $664.98

6 Donors

-$609.48

Donations toward project cost

-$565.23

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$55.50

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