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Ms. Bailey from New York, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Non-Fiction Is Good Reading, Too!

Help me give my students non-fiction books: autobiography, memoir, essays and informational texts of interest!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Bailey's classroom raised $875

This project is fully funded

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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

My students are Intelligent, engaged, passionate learners. Where they are given room to explore ideas in their reading, writing and research, they flourish! Many are at a special turning point where they are asking “Why?” And looking at the world and their inner selves for the answers. A traditional education doesn’t normally support this search, but I find that self-selected books help. Reading about people with both similar and different experiences, and finding truths in books often interrupt expectations because they create questions that lead to more questions. This search is vital.

My students are developing their interests and passions in a way that will take them beyond the classroom after high school.

They are interested in the world at large, and in social justice. They want to know how to make the world a better place.

My Project

These books will help build out a lean area of my classroom library: non-fiction. Often, students don't think they like non-fiction because they associate it with textbooks. I have selected collections of personal essays, memoirs, autobiographies and informational or self-help texts that relate to my students' identities and interests. From these books they can learn about racial and gender justice, stories about coming out in communities that are unaccepting, how to deal with anxiety and depression or loss. There are stories of people who have tried to succeed, and people who redefined the term. There are stories about survival and joy in the midst of hardship, and research about historical events and the tech or food industry. Most of the texts are by BIPOC authors. They will be so excited to have these books within reach every day in the classroom.

In my class, students read every day.

Independent reading was difficult and mostly lacking for many students for the past year and a half, and I'm looking forward to (with your help) presenting them with shelves of new and interesting books to dive into.

Ms. Bailey High School of Fashion Industries Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics (Decolonizing Feminisms) • Amazon Business $30.00 1 $30.00
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise) • Amazon Business $26.95 1 $26.95
Anxiety Relief for Teens: Essential CBT Skills and Mindfulness Practices to Overcome Anxiety and Stress • Amazon Business $11.54 2 $23.08
Girlhood • Amazon Business $22.99 1 $22.99
My Broken Language: A Memoir • Amazon Business $19.79 1 $19.79
Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons • Amazon Business $19.71 1 $19.71
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl • Amazon Business $9.84 2 $19.68
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement • Amazon Business $18.00 1 $18.00
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History • Amazon Business $17.98 1 $17.98
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military • Amazon Business $17.69 1 $17.69
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America • Amazon Business $17.19 1 $17.19
Assata: An Autobiography • Amazon Business $16.95 1 $16.95
You're Not Alone: The Only Book You'll Ever Need to Overcome Anxiety and Depression • Amazon Business $16.88 1 $16.88
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir • Amazon Business $16.79 1 $16.79
Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery • Amazon Business $16.39 1 $16.39
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir • Amazon Business $16.17 1 $16.17
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Transgender History, second edition: The Roots of Today's Revolution (Seal Studies) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
A Black Women's History of the United States (Revsioning American History) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself • Amazon Business $15.89 1 $15.89
My Heart of Rice: A Poetic Filipino American Experience • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Stonewall Reader • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Burning • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents • Amazon Business $14.70 1 $14.70
This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
Please: Radical Self-Care for Wild Women of Color • Amazon Business $14.08 1 $14.08
The History of Hip Hop • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
How to Be an Antiracist • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values • Amazon Business $13.46 1 $13.46
Adulting 101 Book 2: #liveyourbestlife - An In-depth Guide to Developing Healthy Habits, Becoming More Confident, and Living Your Purpose for Graduates and Young Adults • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy • Amazon Business $12.79 1 $12.79
Get Out of Your Head: A Toolkit for Living with and Overcoming Anxiety • Amazon Business $12.79 1 $12.79
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided (Updated With New Material) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
The History of Hip Hop • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
The History of Hip Hop (1) • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
All About Love: New Visions • Amazon Business $11.37 1 $11.37
The Devil's Highway: A True Story • Amazon Business $10.08 1 $10.08
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons • Amazon Business $9.26 1 $9.26
No One Can Pronounce My Name • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
There There • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
The Last Black Unicorn • Amazon Business $7.18 1 $7.18

Materials cost

$703.04

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.55

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$743.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$131.22

Total project goal

$874.81

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $874.81

4 Donors

-$433.00

Donations toward project cost

-$375.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$57.45

Matching donations from our partners

-$432.99

Match offers toward project cost

-$368.04

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$64.95

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

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 $0.00

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