Help me give my students a diverse reading library to empower and open up their minds.
$879 goal
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Hooray! This project is fully funded
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Empowering middle school students to learn and appreciate all people in any walk of life is my goal for this new diverse and inclusive library. Although Social Studies is not primarily and English class, we do enough reading and writing that prompts us to think about many different perspectives. A part of class begins with reading to increase literacy among all my students and not many of them have a book to read that might represent where they come from and who they are.
My goal for this project is to collect an inclusive and diverse list of books so that students can have the opportunity to read and learn about the diverse groups within and outside of our classroom.
My students are such a big and diverse class that they often struggle to find and read voices like their own. That is something that I am striving to change with using new curricula to teach them history through multiple perspectives. With the help and addition of these books, my students will be empowered to enact social change through close study of nonfiction and fictional stories.
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
Way Basics 24.8 H Collins Cubby Bookcase Organizer and Modern Eco Storage Shelf White (WB-2SHELF-3-WE)
• Staples
$57.81
2
$115.62
Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7)
• Amazon Business
$44.76
1
$44.76
Percy Jackson and the Olympians 5 Book Paperback Boxed Set (w/poster) (Percy Jackson & the Olympians)
• Amazon Business
$43.00
1
$43.00
Heartstopper Series Volume 1-4 Books Set By Alice Oseman
• Amazon Business
$34.00
1
$34.00
The House on Mango Street
• Amazon Business
$8.13
4
$32.52
This Place: 150 Years Retold
• Amazon Business
$24.91
1
$24.91
J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
• Amazon Business
$20.46
1
$20.46
Thanku: Poems of Gratitude
• Amazon Business
$19.60
1
$19.60
A Young People's History of the United States: Revised and Updated (For Young People Series)
• Amazon Business
$18.89
1
$18.89
Pemmican Wars (A Girl Called Echo) (Volume 1)
• Amazon Business
$16.97
1
$16.97
Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México
• Amazon Business
$15.89
1
$15.89
Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold)
• Amazon Business
$5.26
3
$15.78
Brown Sugar Babe
• Amazon Business
$14.76
1
$14.76
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
• Amazon Business
$14.33
1
$14.33
Ancient Hawaii: A Captivating Guide to Hawaiian Human History, Starting from the Polynesian Arrival through the Growth of a Civilization to Kamehameha the Great
• Amazon Business
$13.59
1
$13.59
Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas
• Amazon Business
$12.99
1
$12.99
A Time to Dance
• Amazon Business
$12.99
1
$12.99
Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (Mint Editions (Hawaiian Library))
• Amazon Business
$12.97
1
$12.97
Heartstopper #5: A Graphic Novel
• Amazon Business
$11.80
1
$11.80
Brown Is Beautiful: A Poem of Self-Love
• Amazon Business
$11.69
1
$11.69
In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse
• Amazon Business
$10.99
1
$10.99
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People (ReVisioning History for Young People)
• Amazon Business
$10.82
1
$10.82
Baseball Saved Us: 25th Anniversary Edition
• Amazon Business
$9.85
1
$9.85
Iconikal Motivational Encouraging Inspirational Bookmarks, 100-Count
• Amazon Business
$8.99
1
$8.99
Yes! We Are Latinos: Poems and Prose About the Latino Experience
• Amazon Business
$8.99
1
$8.99
Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World
• Amazon Business
$8.99
1
$8.99
Navajo Code Talkers: Top Secret Messengers of World War II (Amazing World War II Stories)
• Amazon Business
$8.99
1
$8.99
We Were Here
• Amazon Business
$8.86
1
$8.86
The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition
• Amazon Business
$8.79
1
$8.79
The Moon Within (Scholastic Gold)
• Amazon Business
$7.99
1
$7.99
Amina's Voice
• Amazon Business
$7.35
1
$7.35
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
• AKJ Education
$7.29
1
$7.29
Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition
• AKJ Education
$7.29
1
$7.29
Dancing Home
• Amazon Business
$6.99
1
$6.99
King Kamehameha The Great: Warrior King of the Hawaiian Islands
• Amazon Business
$6.99
1
$6.99
Who Were the Navajo Code Talkers? (Who Was?)
• Amazon Business
$6.29
1
$6.29
My Name Is Maria Isabel
• Amazon Business
$4.79
1
$4.79
Materials cost
$647.77
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$59.27
3rd party payment processing fee
$9.72
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$746.76
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$131.78
Total project goal
$878.54
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$878.54
9 Donors
-$748.40
Donations toward project cost
-$651.14
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$97.26
match offer
-$112.50
Match offer toward project cost
-$95.62
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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