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  • Mona Shores Middle School
  • Norton Shores, MI
  • More than half 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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It is crucial that I don't allow my students to miss the mark and that my students can find books, characters, and authors they can fall in love with, books they choose themselves because they can relate to their diverse backgrounds and interests. By providing diversity in my library, having current relatable novels, it gives my students the ability to learn understanding and empathy by reading about experiences outside their own. With your help I can bring diverse characters, cultures, and settings into my students' worlds. I want to create insatiable readers, readers who can make connections to their worlds, can be sympathetic to others, can be mature, tolerant, accepting, and who can change the world as a result. One of my students' favorite authors, Kwame Alexander, explains the need for providing students with culturally rich reading experiences - "If we don't give children books that are literally mirrors as well as windows to the whole world of possibility, if these books don't give them the opportunity to see outside themselves, then how can we expect them to grow into adults who connect in meaningful ways to a global community, to people who might look or live differently?" It is so important for me to provide my students with books that can allow them to see themselves in literature.

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It is crucial that I don't allow my students to miss the mark and that my students can find books, characters, and authors they can fall in love with, books they choose themselves because they can relate to their diverse backgrounds and interests. By providing diversity in my library, having current relatable novels, it gives my students the ability to learn understanding and empathy by reading about experiences outside their own. With your help I can bring diverse characters, cultures, and settings into my students' worlds. I want to create insatiable readers, readers who can make connections to their worlds, can be sympathetic to others, can be mature, tolerant, accepting, and who can change the world as a result. One of my students' favorite authors, Kwame Alexander, explains the need for providing students with culturally rich reading experiences - "If we don't give children books that are literally mirrors as well as windows to the whole world of possibility, if these books don't give them the opportunity to see outside themselves, then how can we expect them to grow into adults who connect in meaningful ways to a global community, to people who might look or live differently?" It is so important for me to provide my students with books that can allow them to see themselves in literature.

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