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Mrs. Library from Tacoma WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

The Power of a GREAT Book!

Help me give my students powerful books to read! These books feature characters from marginalized backgrounds and will serve as a mirror for many of our students.

  • $1,329 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Our middle school library serves more than seven hundred students. Our student population is highly inquisitive, energetic, and motivated to direct their own inquiry-based learning through the exploration of library resources. Our school has an incredible group of students from a richly diverse range of backgrounds. Unfortunately, high poverty is part of the daily experience for most of these learners.

Our wonderful students deserve to have every advantage of access to new books in which they can see themselves and look into other perspectives through books that feature characters different from them.

This year, we are focusing on closing the achievement gap and creating a school full of confident, successful students.

My Project

Books have power! Our curious and determined students deserve to have access to these mind-blowing, world-expanding, truth-telling, and life-giving books. Many of these books shine a light on injustice and let our students know that they are not alone. Our students will see themselves written on the pages of these amazing books. They will also be able to peek into cultures and situations which are different than their own. Thank you so much for helping our students see the power of reading a great book.

Mrs. Library
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Living With Viola • Amazon Business $22.95 3 $68.85
Borders • Amazon Business $20.28 3 $60.84
Allergic: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $17.99 3 $53.97
Unearthed: A Jessica Cruz Story • Amazon Business $14.49 3 $43.47
Nubia: Real One • Amazon Business $13.99 3 $41.97
Tidesong • Amazon Business $11.99 3 $35.97
The Legend of Auntie Po • Amazon Business $11.00 3 $33.00
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People • Amazon Business $22.49 1 $22.49
Angie Thomas 2-Book Hardcover Box Set: The Hate U Give and On the Come Up • Amazon Business $20.34 1 $20.34
Rise Up!: How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
Crazy Horse and Custer: Born Enemies • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
A Shot in the Arm!: Big Ideas that Changed the World #3 • Amazon Business $6.29 3 $18.87
African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Too Bright to See • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Root Magic • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast: And Other Tasty Poems • Amazon Business $16.10 1 $16.10
Counting Down with You • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Tokyo Ever After: A Novel (Tokyo Ever After, 1) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
When We Make It • Amazon Business $15.86 1 $15.86
Born Behind Bars • Amazon Business $15.82 1 $15.82
You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell • Amazon Business $15.80 1 $15.80
How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other • Amazon Business $15.79 1 $15.79
Soul Lanterns • Amazon Business $15.59 1 $15.59
Me (Moth) • Amazon Business $15.59 1 $15.59
The Last Cuentista • Amazon Business $15.49 1 $15.49
Barakah Beats • Amazon Business $15.49 1 $15.49
Kaleidoscope • Amazon Business $15.35 1 $15.35
White Smoke • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
The Story of More (Adapted for Young Adults): How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Take Back the Block • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Thanks a Lot, Universe • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Many Meanings of Meilan • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Gilded Ones • Amazon Business $14.77 1 $14.77
Take Me With You When You Go • Amazon Business $14.75 1 $14.75
The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege • Amazon Business $14.73 1 $14.73
Run: Book One (Run, 1) • Amazon Business $14.10 1 $14.10
Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Summer of Brave • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
Starfish • Amazon Business $13.64 1 $13.64
Love Is a Revolution • Amazon Business $12.40 1 $12.40
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance • Amazon Business $12.31 1 $12.31
Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood • Amazon Business $12.20 1 $12.20
Red, White, and Whole • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
The Shape of Thunder • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
The Ash House • Amazon Business $11.74 1 $11.74
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement • Amazon Business $11.73 1 $11.73
You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves • Amazon Business $9.34 1 $9.34

Materials cost

$997.33

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $87.27

3rd party payment processing fee

$14.96

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,129.56

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$199.33

Total project goal

$1,328.89

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,328.89

22 Donors

-$1,328.01

Donations toward project cost

-$1,129.56

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$198.45

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.88

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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