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  • International High School at Lafayette
  • Brooklyn, NY
  • 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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As part of their senior portfolio project, students need to read and analyze a novel, write an essay, and facilitate their own small group bookclub meeting. In an effort to meet the diverse needs of my students in terms of both English language acquisition and the interests of 82 different teenagers, I gave them twenty-three book options written by a number of excellent BIPOC authors. These eight are their top choices! Genres include magical realism, contemporary fiction, and historical fiction and topics run the gamut of teen pregnancy in a pre-Roe era, police violence and the American justice system, the rescue of precious historical documents in 1930s China, romance on the Manhattan subway, Navajo Code Talkers in WWII, and family hauntings in Texas. Students like mine rarely get a real book to hold, let alone a new copy. Putting books into their hands will allow them to take ownership of their reading and engage with the text at home, on the subway, and at school. They will be able to share ideas, analyze literary devices, and collaborate in their bookclub groups from their very own copy of the text. Representation matters. I have seen the impact of stories on my students and the pride they exude when they read a text created by a writer who looks and speaks like them. Help me kindle and sustain their love of reading by buying BIPOC bookclub books for my students.

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As part of their senior portfolio project, students need to read and analyze a novel, write an essay, and facilitate their own small group bookclub meeting. In an effort to meet the diverse needs of my students in terms of both English language acquisition and the interests of 82 different teenagers, I gave them twenty-three book options written by a number of excellent BIPOC authors. These eight are their top choices! Genres include magical realism, contemporary fiction, and historical fiction and topics run the gamut of teen pregnancy in a pre-Roe era, police violence and the American justice system, the rescue of precious historical documents in 1930s China, romance on the Manhattan subway, Navajo Code Talkers in WWII, and family hauntings in Texas. Students like mine rarely get a real book to hold, let alone a new copy. Putting books into their hands will allow them to take ownership of their reading and engage with the text at home, on the subway, and at school. They will be able to share ideas, analyze literary devices, and collaborate in their bookclub groups from their very own copy of the text. Representation matters. I have seen the impact of stories on my students and the pride they exude when they read a text created by a writer who looks and speaks like them. Help me kindle and sustain their love of reading by buying BIPOC bookclub books for my students.

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