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

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Mr. Miller's classroom raised $560

The Right Book Can Create A Life Long Learner

My students need 40+ high interest books.

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Mr. Miller Manual Arts Senior High School
Los Angeles, CA Grades 9-12

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

Only six percent of students in the inner city were I teach go onto attend college. Fostering a love of reading can change this.

I teach ninth graders at a high school that receives students who have not been culled for magnet or other programs; students who have not been accepted to the charters popping up all around us; students who have been rejected by the K-12 school near us because, after attending for eight or nine years, the school has decided that they are not good enough to continue.

My students use oppositional behaviors to avoid the message of inadequacy the school system has been sending them for years.

My Project

In twelve years of teaching English, I have found that nothing can transform a resistant student into an academic like that one book that captures their interest and fills them with a sense of accomplishment and a thirst for more. The wide range of fiction and non-fiction books I am requesting will suddenly appear in the classroom. My students will have the chance to pick through books about the topics they have been asking to read.

The difference between a ninth grader who never finds that one book that interests her and the one who finds the first she ever wanted to read is monumental.

Each year, students return to borrow books and get suggestions for what to read. With your help the number of students who return to check in find a book will triple.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

120 students impacted 13 donors
Mr. Miller Manual Arts Senior High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Los Angeles, CA View local requests

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

120 students impacted 13donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Catch • AKJ Books $11.10 1 $11.10
Ball Don''t Lie Matt de la Pena • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
Exposure Mal Peet • AKJ Books $14.05 1 $14.05
Bringing Down the House • AKJ Books $11.10 1 $11.10
Perfect Chemistry • AKJ Books $7.39 1 $7.39
Snitch • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
The Knife That Killed Me • AKJ Books $12.57 1 $12.57
American Dreams Sapphire • AKJ Books $9.62 1 $9.62
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf • AKJ Books $8.88 1 $8.88
Listen Up! Zoe Angelsey, Foreword by Yusef Komunyakaa • AKJ Books $12.58 1 $12.58
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes • AKJ Books $14.76 1 $14.76
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems Sonia Sanchez • AKJ Books $11.10 1 $11.10
Falling Hard: 100 Love Poems by Teenagers Betsy Franco • AKJ Books $11.83 1 $11.83
After the Death of Anna Gonzales • AKJ Books $13.28 1 $13.28
Black Wings and Blind Angels: Poems Sapphire • AKJ Books $8.88 1 $8.88
Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam Tony Medina, Louis Reyes • AKJ Books $11.06 1 $11.06
The Colossus • AKJ Books $10.36 1 $10.36
Under And Alone • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
Who Killed My Daughter? Lois Duncan • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
Lucky Alice Sebold • AKJ Books $18.50 1 $18.50
The Help • AKJ Books $11.84 1 $11.84
Gangsta Rap • AKJ Books $6.65 1 $6.65
Harlem Hustle Janet McDonald • AKJ Books $12.57 1 $12.57
Bloom • AKJ Books $6.65 1 $6.65
Crash Test Love Ted Michael • AKJ Books $6.65 1 $6.65
A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl Tanya Lee Stone • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91
Rules of Attraction Simone Elkeles • AKJ Books $12.57 1 $12.57
Acceleration • AKJ Books $5.17 1 $5.17
Twelve Angry Men: A Play in Three Acts • AKJ Books $6.75 1 $6.75
Chicken Soup for the Soul Teens Talk High School • AKJ Books $11.06 1 $11.06
Teen Ink: Our Voices, Our Visions John Meyer, Stephanie H. M • AKJ Books $9.58 1 $9.58
Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories • AKJ Books $9.62 1 $9.62
Adios to All the Drama • AKJ Books $7.36 1 $7.36
Bang • AKJ Books $7.36 1 $7.36
Party Tom Leveen • AKJ Books $12.57 1 $12.57
Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl • AKJ Books $6.65 1 $6.65
Black and White • AKJ Books $5.17 1 $5.17
Cool Like That Nikki Carter • AKJ Books $7.36 1 $7.36
Fist Stick Knife Gun • AKJ Books $10.36 1 $10.36
Janes in Love • AKJ Books $7.39 1 $7.39
Romeo and Juliet • AKJ Books $12.54 1 $12.54
Death Note, Volume 1 Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata (Illustrato • AKJ Books $5.91 1 $5.91

Materials cost

$398.39

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $36.45

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$475.82

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$83.97

Total project goal

$559.79

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $559.79

9 Donors

-$279.89

Donations toward project cost

-$237.91

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.98

match offer

-$279.89

Match offer toward project cost

-$237.91

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.98

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