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Ms. Jhoanna from Jamaica Plain, MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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New Representative Books for a New School Year

Help me give my students books that are representative of them and their cultures.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Jhoanna's classroom raised $559

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 Project

My students are 9th graders and new to high school and our community. They love to learn, especially when they are engaged with the materials. Unfortunately, we still are waiting for our newly approved school library to receive books. So, as teachers, we still have to rely on our classroom libraries.

Learning is so much easier and fun when you are excited and interested in what you are reading!

This project will help provide my students with new books filled with people who look like they do and share similar backgrounds and cultures. These books are also all topics and genres that young teens will enjoy.

Ms. Jhoanna Margarita Muniz Academy Grades 9-12

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.

Jamaica Plain, MA View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

75 students impacted 12donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Hush Harbor: A Novel • Amazon Business $30.00 1 $30.00
​​​​PopSockets Phone Grip with Expanding Kickstand, Disney PopOut - Glow in The Dark Mickey Ghost • Amazon Business $24.99 1 $24.99
The Boy From Block 66 • Amazon Business $23.99 1 $23.99
A Tall Dark Trouble • Amazon Business $19.92 1 $19.92
The Weight Of Blood • Amazon Business $19.24 1 $19.24
Family Lore: A Good Morning America Book Club Pick • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite (Untold Legends, 1) • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Never Look Back • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
This Is My America • Amazon Business $18.72 1 $18.72
Manslaughter Park (Jane Austen Murder Mysteries, 3) • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight • Amazon Business $14.61 1 $14.61
One of Us Is Back (ONE OF US IS LYING) • Amazon Business $14.23 1 $14.23
Mixed Out (The Mixed Girl Series) • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Poor Little Mixed Girl (The Mixed Girl Series) • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
If Dominican Were a Color • Amazon Business $13.61 1 $13.61
Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
Cinderella Is Dead • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
Deep in Providence • Amazon Business $11.26 1 $11.26
Inheritance: A Visual Poem • Amazon Business $11.17 1 $11.17
Us, in Progress: Short Stories About Young Latinos • Amazon Business $11.09 1 $11.09
Snakes in the Mix (The Mixed Girl Series) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Living Beyond Borders: Growing up Mexican in America • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
Too Soon for Adiós • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You • Amazon Business $10.06 1 $10.06
Okoye to the People: A Black Panther Novel • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Kill Joy: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Novella • Amazon Business $9.74 1 $9.74
Big Chicas Don't Cry • Amazon Business $8.29 1 $8.29
Little Creeping Things • Amazon Business $8.19 1 $8.19
Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$438.26

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.57

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$474.83

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$83.79

Total project goal

$558.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$558.62

1 Donor

-$259.90

Donations toward project cost

-$253.92

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.98

match offer

-$259.89

Match offer toward project cost

-$220.91

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$38.98

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$38.83

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$0.00

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