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Ms. Mufti from San Francisco, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Seeking Crowded Shelves: It's Book Time!

Help me give my students a rich selection of independent reading books that represent the depth and variety of their experiences, identities, backgrounds, reading interests, and abilities.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Mufti's classroom raised $1,072

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 comprise more than half of the freshman class at their public San Francisco high school; their diverse interests, backgrounds, and perspectives about the world reflect the richness of the community in which they live. Enthusiastic learners and critical thinkers, they bring a range of reading abilities and skills to the classroom.

Readers and thinkers, doers and observers, my students are invested in beginning their high school career strong.

Freshman year is special, and my students seem to know this without anyone telling them so. I can see that they still enjoy reading for pleasure and have not yet developed the resistance that sometimes comes with lack of choice. I am inspired by my students' energy and curiosity. Their fierce desire to see themselves in the world and in the texts around them inspires me!

My Project

The books I've selected will create a print-rich, updated library of titles that will be representative of my students' lives, experiences, and identities. Students have time to read for pleasure each class period, and an updated library stocked with high-interest, newer titles will ensure that they find books that both resonate with them and nurture their love of reading. Updated titles will also help engage and grow reluctant readers which will positively impact students' broader school experiences.

Expanding on an existing, outdated classroom library is a labor of love; I often visit yard sales and thrift stores to find titles that match my students' interests, identities, and abilities.

Shelving our book bins with fresh titles and genres, such as graphic novels and picture books, means that my students will spend less time sifting through cracked covers and yellowed pages, instead perusing several titles of interest to them before settling on a new read. More importantly, the list of books I've selected are representative of my students; the impact of seeing oneself represented in a text cannot be overestimated.

My students look forward to reading for pleasure in the midst of a busy day; they are already learning to appreciate how precious and rare free reading time can be. An updated, diverse collection of books for our classroom library means that all students will find that just-right-book!

Ms. Mufti Mission 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

115 students impacted 10donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Reaching Valhalla: Tales and Sagas from Norse Mythology • Amazon Business $25.99 1 $25.99
The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel): A Novel • Amazon Business $22.95 1 $22.95
salt. • Amazon Business $22.50 1 $22.50
As the Crow Flies • Amazon Business $20.40 1 $20.40
My Friend Dahmer • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
The Odyssey • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
My Hair is a Garden • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation • Amazon Business $16.96 1 $16.96
In Real Life • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Islandborn • Amazon Business $15.87 1 $15.87
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $15.63 1 $15.63
David Bowie: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel • Amazon Business $15.28 1 $15.28
Migrant • Amazon Business $15.05 1 $15.05
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
Injun • Amazon Business $14.93 1 $14.93
Not the Girls You're Looking For • Amazon Business $14.90 1 $14.90
A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods • Amazon Business $14.24 1 $14.24
Speak: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Let the Children March • Amazon Business $13.91 1 $13.91
James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) • Amazon Business $13.63 1 $13.63
Rendez-vous in Phoenix • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
V for Vendetta • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Ghost Boys • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic • Amazon Business $13.36 1 $13.36
Pashmina • Amazon Business $13.25 1 $13.25
What If It's Us • Amazon Business $12.91 1 $12.91
Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery • Amazon Business $12.75 1 $12.75
Monday's Not Coming • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice • Amazon Business $12.37 1 $12.37
For Every One • Amazon Business $12.26 1 $12.26
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir • Amazon Business $12.23 1 $12.23
The Crossover (The Crossover Series) • Amazon Business $12.19 1 $12.19
Rebound (The Crossover Series) • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Roller Girl • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Betty Before X • Amazon Business $11.40 1 $11.40
March: Book Three • Amazon Business $11.35 1 $11.35
When Dimple Met Rishi • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
The Prince and the Dressmaker • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
Where I Live • Amazon Business $10.54 1 $10.54
The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Nimona • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
All Summer Long • Amazon Business $10.39 1 $10.39
The Rose That Grew From Concrete • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Monster: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Patina (Track) • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
Coraline: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Ghosts • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Anya's Ghost • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Gareth Hinds • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Pantheon Graphic Library) • Amazon Business $9.73 1 $9.73
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy) • Amazon Business $9.60 1 $9.60
The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 1) • Amazon Business $9.09 1 $9.09
The Silence of Our Friends • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
El Deafo • Amazon Business $8.72 1 $8.72
Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
As Brave As You • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe) • Amazon Business $6.71 1 $6.71
Ghost (Track) • Amazon Business $6.48 1 $6.48
Boy21 • Amazon Business $5.50 1 $5.50

Materials cost

$796.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $72.83

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.94

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$910.77

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$160.72

Total project goal

$1,071.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,071.49

8 Donors

-$591.13

Donations toward project cost

-$526.46

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$64.67

Matching donations from our partners

-$452.13

Match offers toward project cost

-$384.31

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$67.82

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$28.23

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