My students need 50 new books to keep our classroom library current including "The Me Nobody Know", "Hollow City", and "I Am The Messenger".
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. p.'s classroom raised $808
This project is fully funded
My Students
What's the best book you ever read? For some of my students, they'll have that moment of connecting with a book that truly touches them in my class.
My students are hard-working, curious and engaged readers, but only thanks to my determination to keep a growing, current independent library.
It is essential that my students (many of whom have learning disabilities and have been otherwise resistant to school) have enough choice to let them feel like reading is a pleasure rather than a burden.
Most of my kids do not have libraries or books at all at home, and they have often engaged with reading as a form of punishment or frustration in their elementary and middle school years.
Once they enter my class and realize that reading opens doors and helps them engage with issues they care about, their whole mentality changes. It is incredible to watch!
My Project
My students read for two, twenty-five minute blocks in class and are required to read for homework. The expectation is that everyone will finish three books (or more) by the end of the semester. Students then give book talks, plugging the amazing books they finish to get a dialogue about reading started in my classroom. My students need 50 new books to keep our classroom library current including "The Me Nobody Know", "Hollow City", and "I Am The Messenger".
As a teacher, I rely on the generosity and support of my administration, friends and family to help me do my job to the best of my ability.
Schools like mine are bound to the limited resources we can afford, and having your donations of these awesome, page-turners to my library will make a huge difference in the reading lives of my students. Thank you so much!
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
Lil Wayne: Grammy-Winning Hip-Hop Artist (Contemporary Lives)
• Amazon
$24.63
1
$24.63
The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument
• Amazon
$22.29
1
$22.29
It Happened to Me: A Teen's Guide to Overcoming Sexual Abuse (workbook)
• Amazon
$17.50
1
$17.50
Decoded
• Amazon
$16.97
1
$16.97
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
• Amazon
$16.37
1
$16.37
The Anthology of Rap
• Amazon
$15.94
1
$15.94
In Too Deep: Teens Write about Gangs
• Amazon
$15.26
1
$15.26
You Don't Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens
• Amazon
$15.26
1
$15.26
Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir
• Amazon
$15.21
1
$15.21
Tilt
• Amazon
$14.58
1
$14.58
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
• Amazon
$14.18
1
$14.18
Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography
• Amazon
$13.79
1
$13.79
Once a King, Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King
• Amazon
$13.75
1
$13.75
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
• Amazon
$13.62
1
$13.62
Jumped In: What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption
• Amazon
$13.40
1
$13.40
Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen
• Amazon
$12.94
1
$12.94
Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens
• Amazon
$12.18
1
$12.18
The Me Nobody Knows: A Guide for Teen Survivors
• Amazon
$11.93
1
$11.93
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
• Amazon
$11.80
1
$11.80
The Rose that Grew from Concrete
• Amazon
$11.78
1
$11.78
Smoke
• Amazon
$11.36
1
$11.36
Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills for Helping You Manage Mood Swings, Control Angry Outbursts, and Get Along with Others
• Amazon
$10.98
1
$10.98
In Love and In Danger: A Teen's Guide to Breaking Free of Abusive Relationships
• Amazon
$10.68
1
$10.68
We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction
• Amazon
$10.00
1
$10.00
Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)
• Amazon
$9.89
1
$9.89
Tricks
• Amazon
$9.89
1
$9.89
Kanye West (Hip-Hop Biographies)
• Amazon
$9.85
1
$9.85
How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC
• Amazon
$9.80
1
$9.80
Stupid Fast
• Amazon
$8.99
1
$8.99
As Dead as it Gets (Bad Girls Don't Die)
• Amazon
$8.95
1
$8.95
Takedown
• Amazon
$8.80
1
$8.80
I'm With Stupid
• Amazon
$8.80
1
$8.80
Chasing the High: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Substance Abuse (Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands' Adolescent Mental Health Initiative)
• Amazon
$8.78
1
$8.78
I Am the Messenger
• Amazon
$8.61
1
$8.61
Kicking Up Dirt: A True Story of Determination, Deafness, and Daring
• Amazon
$8.60
1
$8.60
Gangs (Teen Issues)
• Amazon
$8.54
1
$8.54
Bad Girls Don't Die
• Amazon
$8.09
1
$8.09
Thru My Eyes: Thoughts on Tupac Amaru Shakur in Pictures and Words
• Amazon
$7.98
1
$7.98
97 Things to Do Before You Finish High School
• Amazon
$7.91
1
$7.91
Perfect
• Amazon
$7.73
1
$7.73
Jay-Z: Hip-Hop Icon (Graphic Library: American Graphic)
• Amazon
$7.16
1
$7.16
X: A Biography of Malcolm X (American Graphic)
• Amazon
$7.16
1
$7.16
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
• Amazon
$7.12
1
$7.12
Skater Stuntboys (Take It to the Xtreme)
• Amazon
$6.26
1
$6.26
BMX Tunnel Run (Take It to the Xtreme)
• Amazon
$6.26
1
$6.26
Dirtbike Daredevils (Take It to the Xtreme)
• Amazon
$6.26
1
$6.26
Pill Head: The Secret Life of a Painkiller Addict
• Amazon
$5.88
1
$5.88
Materials cost
$647.07
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$9.71
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$686.78
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$121.20
Total project goal
$807.98
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$807.98
3 Donors
-$403.99
Donations toward project cost
-$343.39
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$60.60
match offer
-$403.99
Match offer toward project cost
-$343.39
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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