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  • West Senior High School
  • Iowa City, IA
  • More than a third 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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Our library has founded a new book club focused on diverse characters and settings. This initiative hopes to attract students of color to books that appeal to them, but we also anticipate it will appeal to readers from all backgrounds. We will seek to select books that challenge readers to empathize with others by gaining an understanding of their experiences through stories. Jason Reynolds, whose books have won national awards and whose voice is vital to this growing movement to engage minority readers, says that all he wants “kids to know is that I see them for who they are and not who everyone thinks they are.” We feel the same, and we hope to form deeper connections with students. We want to help students across all subgroups see one another more clearly and with more understanding. Each month, students will read and discuss a different title, but we need enough copies to maximize the number of students who can participate. In October, students will be be reading The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. Our reading of The Hate U Give will correspond with the premiere of the film. Our November title, The Poet X, is a stunning narrative in which a young Latina uses poetry to find her voice and her place.

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Our library has founded a new book club focused on diverse characters and settings. This initiative hopes to attract students of color to books that appeal to them, but we also anticipate it will appeal to readers from all backgrounds. We will seek to select books that challenge readers to empathize with others by gaining an understanding of their experiences through stories. Jason Reynolds, whose books have won national awards and whose voice is vital to this growing movement to engage minority readers, says that all he wants “kids to know is that I see them for who they are and not who everyone thinks they are.” We feel the same, and we hope to form deeper connections with students. We want to help students across all subgroups see one another more clearly and with more understanding. Each month, students will read and discuss a different title, but we need enough copies to maximize the number of students who can participate. In October, students will be be reading The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. Our reading of The Hate U Give will correspond with the premiere of the film. Our November title, The Poet X, is a stunning narrative in which a young Latina uses poetry to find her voice and her place.

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