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

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Personal Books for Personal Reading

Help me give my students their own personal books to continue their own personal reading at home.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Paradise's classroom raised $359

This project is fully funded

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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

My students are as diverse as New York City in race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and ability. Our school demographics are sixty-two percent Hispanic, twenty-eight percent black, five percent Asian and three percent white, with over 85% of students receiving free or reduced-price lunches. My students come to school every day from all five boroughs with various needs, persevering against all the challenges life has thrown at them.

I have students who come to school with so little and students come to school without breakfast and without backpacks.

Some students cannot live at home with their parents and some do not even have a place to call home. Our students deal with many challenges including mental health issues, gun violence, and pregnancies. I want to be able to use my time with my students to provide them all with the educational opportunities they deserve.

My Project

For some students, reading comes easy and is a joy. For some students, reading is a challenge to engage with. Either way, students who engage in more reading outside of the classroom have stronger reading and vocabulary skills. The questions then becomes, how do you get all types of different high school students to engage in reading when it is not something assigned for class?

What we do know, is that students are more likely to engage in reading and continue reading at home when they have books they want to read.

So we went around asking students what books they wanted to read. Fiction or nonfiction? Romance or horror? Poetry or encyclopedia? This list of books was put together by students, for students. Each book was selected by a student, in the hope to increase reading outside of the classroom. With this project, we hope to inspire students to find new books and topics that they enjoy reading about, and through this build students into life long lovers of reading. Especially with all the uncertainty that COVID still has on our students' lives, giving them their own independent reading books means that more of them get a chance to engage in reading on their own. By increasing literacy skills, we will help student academic success, and by listening to student voices, we will help students feel connected to reading.

Help us help our students become the readers we know they can be!

Ms. Paradise Leadership & Public Service High School 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.

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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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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
It Ends with Us: A Novel • Amazon Business $12.67 3 $38.01
A Muslim Woman's Diary • Amazon Business $25.00 1 $25.00
The Midnight Library Paperback 18 Feb 2021 • Amazon Business $19.95 1 $19.95
The Henna Wars • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
You've Reached Sam: A Novel • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey's Anatomy • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Volume 2 (Avatar: The Last Airbender) (Screen Comix) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Almond: A Novel • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses) • Amazon Business $14.25 1 $14.25
The Good Witch's Perpetual Planner (Volume 4) (The Modern-Day Witch) • Amazon Business $11.66 1 $11.66
The Love Hypothesis • Amazon Business $11.17 1 $11.17
Spy x Family, Vol. 1 (1) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
I Think I Love You (Underlined Paperbacks) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
No Longer Human • Amazon Business $9.70 1 $9.70
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.42 1 $9.42
Carrie • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Attack on Titan 34 • Amazon Business $8.46 1 $8.46
All the Bright Places • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
Milk and Honey • Amazon Business $7.38 1 $7.38

Materials cost

$270.40

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.06

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$304.46

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$53.73

Total project goal

$358.19

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $358.19

2 Donors

-$358.19

Donations toward project cost

-$304.46

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$53.73

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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