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Ms. Willis from Starkville, MS is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Take A Look, See Yourself in a Book!

Help me give my students a diverse reading experience. Most of the students I encounter at my school say they have never seen themselves as the protagonist in a book.

  • $1,057 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My students are young, enthusiastic, and funny, but also misunderstood and sometimes labeled according to mistakes they've made. My students long to see themselves represented in a positive light in the books they read. It is a beautiful experience to watch my students connect with literature.

My Project

Many of my students have never been able to make a personal connection with a book. One student told me that he'd never seen a mixed person in a book and that he didn't believe that anyone had ever written about people like him. Another student said she had never read a book with a black female as the main character unless the person was a slave or a civil rights activist, no one just doing everyday things in a book.

I want my students to not only see themselves in the books they read; but also see characters that are experiencing triumphs and problems similar to their own.

Everyone deserves to look into a book and see their own reflection.

Ms. Willis
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Blackout • MahoganyBooks $17.99 5 $89.95
Say Her Name • AKJ Education $13.86 5 $69.30
Dear Justyce • AKJ Education $13.86 5 $69.30
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky • AKJ Education $13.13 5 $65.65
Class Act • MahoganyBooks $11.69 5 $58.45
New Kid • MahoganyBooks $11.69 5 $58.45
The Poet X • AKJ Education $9.48 5 $47.40
Dear Martin • AKJ Education $7.29 5 $36.45
A Good Kind of Trouble • AKJ Education $5.83 5 $29.15
Mixed Me! • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
Free Lunch • AKJ Education $15.26 1 $15.26
Giant Steps to Change the World • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
Ordinary Hazards • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
This is Your Time • MahoganyBooks $14.39 1 $14.39
Sit-In • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Soldier for Equality • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Dreamers • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Under My Hijab • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Sun Does Shine • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
I Am Every Good Thing • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
A Friend for Henry • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Missing Daddy • AKJ Education $12.37 1 $12.37
Claudette Colvin • AKJ Education $9.09 1 $9.09
The Running Dream • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Stonewall • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Uptown • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
We Beat the Street • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
A Boy Called Slow • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Boys Without Names • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Magic Trash • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Native American Heroes Osceola, Tecumseh & Cochise • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64

Materials cost

$790.44

Vendor shipping charges

 $10.15

Sales tax

 $55.33

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$897.78

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$158.43

Total project goal

$1,056.21

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,056.21

9 Donors

-$1,029.92

Donations toward project cost

-$897.78

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$132.14

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$26.29

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