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Ms. Suyehara from Los Angeles, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading Is Rad but Where Are the Books?

Help me give my students a classroom library with high-interest, award-winning books to galvanize their reading skills and their love of reading.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Suyehara's classroom raised $580

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

I teach 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students in South Los Angeles. Many of them are English Language Learners, and they have aspirations of being the first in their families to go to college. In their AVID and STEAM programs, they’re learning what steps they must take in order to be successful in the global market. With your help and support, we can close the achievement gap by giving these kids opportunities and resources they couldn’t necessarily get on their own. Let’s do this together!

My Project

We read. We write. We think. We discuss and analyze multiple texts in our classroom. Sadly, our classroom library hardly expresses our love of reading.

Will you help us add to our collection of well-worn books?

I encourage students to bring books home to read to themselves, to siblings, and to parents, among others, except there are hardly enough books to accommodate 160 students. With their varying tastes, pursuits, and interests, I feel that the choices are limited and do not align with what the students wish to read.

In other words, personal choice is stifled by what books are available, and, unsurprisingly, students do not connect with what happens to be left over.

Their access to books, therefore, lacks enthusiasm and support, and I am concerned that reading will be restricted to the classroom when a love of reading should happen both inside and outside of school.

Yes, while students can check out library books, many on our campus rarely find the time to visit a library when they have to run errands with younger siblings in tow.

Ready access is key for them and significantly removes the anxiety that they will have nothing to read for homework.

With your donations, we can improve our classroom library and support students as they nurture their life-long learning.

We can make dreams come true with your help! Thank you for considering us and for having an open heart.

Ms. Suyehara James A Foshay Learning Center Grades 6-8

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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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

160 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The First Rule of Punk • AKJ Education $12.40 6 $74.40
I Am Malala • AKJ Education $8.02 6 $48.12
Inside Out and Back Again • AKJ Education $6.29 6 $37.74
The Hate U Give Movie Tie-in Edition • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Brown Girl Dreaming • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Black Panther 1 • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story • AKJ Education $5.59 2 $11.18
A Separate Peace • AKJ Education $10.95 1 $10.95
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) • AKJ Education $10.48 1 $10.48
Old Man and the Sea • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Brown Girl Dreaming • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Monster • AKJ Education $7.69 1 $7.69
Life As We Knew It • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Stuck in Neutral • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Lord of the Flies • AKJ Education $6.99 1 $6.99
Animal Farm • AKJ Education $6.99 1 $6.99
Night • AKJ Education $6.97 1 $6.97
Where the Red Fern Grows • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Thing About Jellyfish • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Chains: Seeds of America • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
The Penderwicks A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
A Single Shard • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Stargirl • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Elijah of Buxton • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
When You Reach Me • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Red Scarf Girl A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Rules • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: The Sea of Monsters • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Witch of Blackbird Pond • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Maniac Magee • AKJ Education $5.60 1 $5.60
Bud, Not Buddy • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
Island of the Blue Dolphins • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
The Tiger Rising • AKJ Education $4.89 1 $4.89
The Diary of a Young Girl • AKJ Education $4.89 1 $4.89

Materials cost

$417.67

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $38.22

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.27

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$492.16

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$86.85

Total project goal

$579.01

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $579.01

5 Donors

-$514.41

Donations toward project cost

-$439.04

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$75.37

match offer

-$62.50

Match offer toward project cost

-$53.12

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.38

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.11

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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