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Ms. V. from OH is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading, That's Not So Gay!

My students need 62 contemporary, young-adult books about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and/or transgendered characters.

  • $941 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

I teach sophomores and juniors at a rural, high-poverty high school near a declining farming community in Ohio.

My students say that they can't stand to read, but when presented with books that they can relate to and offer interesting plot lines and characters, they blossom as readers. My students insisted two weeks ago that they don't read. Never have and never will. But suddenly, when reading the books from our classroom collection, they are reading successfully and are even enjoying it! Here's the problem. I brought my books with me from the last school I taught. I only had between 30 and 50 students there. Now I have three times the readers but with books only adequate for 50. The other issue my students have begun to deal with is openly gay, lesbian, and bisexual people in the student body. It is quite exciting that these students are able to live openly here at school, but many of my students don't know how to deal with peers that are so "different." I need for them to understand how people who identify as LGBT are no different than their straight friends, and I need them to realize the affect that "that's so gay" has on their peers.

Reading can help! I need books! Lots of them for my students. And I need books with diverse characters so that my students can see the larger world around them. A world that they are part of even if they never leave their small farming community. These books will open their eyes to what the world offers and offer them an escape from the drama and tragedies that befall them daily here in high school. (Surely we all remember what that was like!)

You can help my students appreciate diversity and continue to fall in love with reading by providing them with books that will reach out them them where they are. You can help them become life-long learners and engage with the world through critical thinking that is gained by reading.

Ms. V.
Grades 9-12
  • Isus Institute-Construct Tech
  • Dayton, OH

    • This project will reach 150 students.

    24 donors have given to this project.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dramarama E. Lockhart • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun Jacqueline Woodson • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Dare Truth or Promise Paula Boock • Barnes and Noble $13.50 1 $13.50
Getting It Alex Sanchez, Michael Frost • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
My Heartbeat Garret Freymann-Weyr • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Bright Purple: Color Me Confused Melody Carlson • Barnes and Noble $11.69 1 $11.69
Deliver Us from Evie M. E. Kerr • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
What Happened to Lani Garver Carol Plum-Ucci • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
The House You Pass on the Way Jacqueline Woodson • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Four Dorothys Paul Ruditis • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Front Runner Patricia Nell Warren • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin • Barnes and Noble $11.70 1 $11.70
Absolutely, Positively Not David LaRochelle • Barnes and Noble $15.25 1 $15.25
Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth Michael Cart (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $12.55 1 $12.55
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins Emma Donoghue • Barnes and Noble $10.79 1 $10.79
Alice on the Outside Phyllis Reynolds Naylor • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Folded Leaf William Maxwell • Barnes and Noble $12.60 1 $12.60
My Father's Scar Michael Cart • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Necessary Hunger Nina Revoyr • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Split Screen: Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies/Bride of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies Brent Hartinger • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
Harlan's Race Patricia Nell Warren • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Billy's Boy: Sequel to the Front Runner and Harlan's Race Patricia Nell Warren, Jay Fraley (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Hello, Groin Beth Goobie • Barnes and Noble $16.15 1 $16.15
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea Shyam Selvadurai • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
Common Sons Ronald L. Donaghe • Barnes and Noble $17.05 1 $17.05
7 Days at the Hot Corner Terry Trueman • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Crush Jane Futcher • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
What Happened to Lani Garver Carol Plum-Ucci • Barnes and Noble $15.30 1 $15.30
Benediction Diane Salvatore • Barnes and Noble $10.75 1 $10.75
Avoidance Michael Lowenthal • Barnes and Noble $14.40 1 $14.40
Love Rules Marilyn Reynolds • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
Orphea Proud Sharon Dennis Dennis Wyeth • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Two Teenagers in Twenty Ann Heron (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $12.55 1 $12.55
Desire Lines Jack Gantos • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
Talk Kathe Koja • Barnes and Noble $14.40 1 $14.40
The Rainbow Kite Marlene Fanta Shyer • Barnes and Noble $14.35 1 $14.35
Tales of the Closet: The Collected Series, Vol. 1 Ivan Velez • Barnes and Noble $7.65 1 $7.65
Flip Side Andrew Matthews • Barnes and Noble $7.97 1 $7.97
Truth and Lies Tamara Williams • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Name Me Nobody Lois-Ann Yamanaka • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Shell House Linda Newbery • Barnes and Noble $5.85 1 $5.85
The Year They Burned the Books Nancy Garden • Barnes and Noble $15.30 1 $15.30
Split Screen: Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies and Bride of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies Brent Hartinger • Barnes and Noble $16.10 1 $16.10
A Year of Full Moons Madelyn Arnold • Barnes and Noble $15.25 1 $15.25
Hero Perry Moore, Tk (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.59 1 $13.59
Empress of the World Sara Ryan • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
The God Box Alex Sanchez • Barnes and Noble $13.59 1 $13.59
Between Mom and Jo Julie Anne Peters • Barnes and Noble $4.98 1 $4.98
Peter Kate Walker • Barnes and Noble $5.35 1 $5.35
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson • Barnes and Noble $11.70 1 $11.70
Freak Show James St. James • Barnes and Noble $17.09 1 $17.09
M or F? Lisa Papademetriou, Chris Tebbetts • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Bermudez Triangle Maureen Johnson • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Am I Blue?: Coming out from the Silence Marion Dane Bauer (Editor), Beck Underwood (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
South Beach Sizzle Suzanne Weyn, Diana Gonzalez • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Another Kind of Cowboy Susan Juby • Barnes and Noble $13.59 1 $13.59
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List Rachel Cohn, David Levithan • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
Boy's Own Story Edmund White • Barnes and Noble $11.65 1 $11.65
Hard Love Ellen Wittlinger • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Someone is Watching Mark A. Roeder • Barnes and Noble $16.15 1 $16.15
Is He Or Isn't He? John Hall, John Scognamiglio • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
The Foul Line F. Thibou, Heidi Bartsch • Barnes and Noble $16.15 1 $16.15

Materials cost

$670.58

Vendor shipping charges

 $67.06

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$16.76

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$771.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$169.24

Total project goal

$940.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $940.24

23 Donors

-$907.06

Donations toward project cost

-$771.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$136.06

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$33.18

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

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