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Celebrating the LGBTQ+ Community Through Literature
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My Project
Visibility is everything. My students are high school freshmen through juniors who spend the first ten minutes of every class reading a novel of their choice.
It is important that teens within the LGBTQ+ community see themselves reflected in the books that they read in the classroom. Traditional teen literature typically focuses on cisgender, heterosexual characters, but ALL students need stories that let them know that they are not alone in their struggles and that there are others who share in their triumphs.
Through these novels, I also hope to help those students outside of the LGBTQ+ community to gain insight and understanding about the experiences of so many of their fellow students.
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Where Your Donation Goes
Materials
Cost
Quantity
Total
Being Emily Anniversary Edition
• Amazon Business
$17.95
1
$17.95
Follow Your Arrow
• Amazon Business
$13.49
1
$13.49
Red Skies Falling (The Skybound Saga, 2)
• Amazon Business
$11.99
1
$11.99
Meet Cute Diary
• Amazon Business
$10.99
1
$10.99
Black Wings Beating (The Skybound Saga, 1)
• Amazon Business
$10.99
1
$10.99
If I Was Your Girl
• Amazon Business
$10.79
1
$10.79
You Should See Me in a Crown
• Amazon Business
$9.99
1
$9.99
The Gravity of Us
• Amazon Business
$9.89
1
$9.89
The Weight of the Stars
• Amazon Business
$9.89
1
$9.89
Some Girls Do
• Amazon Business
$9.89
1
$9.89
Felix Ever After
• Amazon Business
$9.89
1
$9.89
I Wish You All the Best
• Amazon Business
$9.50
1
$9.50
Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun: A Novel
• Amazon Business
$8.48
1
$8.48
Symptoms of Being Human
• Amazon Business
$8.46
1
$8.46
Materials cost
$152.19
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$2.28
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$184.47
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$32.55
Total project goal
$217.02
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$217.02
3 Donors
-$217.02
Donations toward project cost
-$184.47
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$32.55
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