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Mrs. Nelson from Maryville, TN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Wanted: Diverse Books

Help me give my students diverse books for our classroom library that will allow us to read about characters from different backgrounds to see the world through someone else's eyes.

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My Students

My students are fantastic learners who walk through our doors from all walks of life. We are a rural school nestled in the Smoky Mountains. Many of our students never leave the county or state, so it is our job to educate them on the world around them.

My students are creative, kindhearted, and very driven when it comes to learning new things.

Our school has about 800 students in grades 6-8. I teach around 110 of these students. We have a growing classroom library that is full of wonderful books that my students enjoy reading, but we want to expand that library to include diverse books. When trying to expose my students to a variety of people other than those that are like them, books act as a great vehicle to teach them.

Through diverse novels by authors from different backgrounds featuring characters that are different than them, my students can learn about the world around them.

My Project

When some of your students have rarely left the county they live in and don't know many people other than people like them, how can you educate them about diversity? The answer: books!

Having a classroom library full of diverse books written from diverse authors about characters who are different than my students will not only engage them in a captivating story, but it can educate them about diversity.

Reading is a great vehicle for students to "walk in someone else's shoes" and being able to do that through diverse books can really impact their lives. Having books available that feature characters from different time periods, races, and cultures will really help expand their worldview.

Mrs. Nelson Heritage Middle School Grades 6-8

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Maryville, TN View local requests 125 students impacted 13donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Once Series 6 Books Set Pack by Morris Gleitzman (Now, After, Then, Once, Soon, Maybe) • Amazon Business $31.45 1 $31.45
The Things We Cannot Say: A Novel • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 • Amazon Business $14.69 1 $14.69
The Girl Who Lived: A Thrilling Suspense Novel • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday • Amazon Business $14.31 1 $14.31
Illegal • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
The Point of Light (Historical Fiction) • Amazon Business $13.82 1 $13.82
Stolen Secrets • Amazon Business $13.75 1 $13.75
Internment • Amazon Business $13.75 1 $13.75
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks • Amazon Business $13.19 1 $13.19
The Key to Every Thing • Amazon Business $13.18 1 $13.18
It Wasn't Me • Amazon Business $13.15 1 $13.15
Odd One Out • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
The Bridge Home • Amazon Business $12.87 1 $12.87
The Enemy Above: A Novel of World War II • Amazon Business $12.87 1 $12.87
Kiki and Jacques: A Refugee Story • Amazon Business $12.85 1 $12.85
White Rose • Amazon Business $12.77 1 $12.77
The Last Cherry Blossom • Amazon Business $12.70 1 $12.70
Summer of '69 • Amazon Business $12.32 1 $12.32
War in the Ring: Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, and the Fight between America and Hitler • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
My Real Name is Hanna • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
The Season of Styx Malone • Amazon Business $11.79 1 $11.79
The Journey of Little Charlie (National Book Award Finalist) • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
What If It's Us • Amazon Business $11.60 1 $11.60
The Chaos of Standing Still • Amazon Business $11.59 1 $11.59
In Another Time: A Novel • Amazon Business $11.07 1 $11.07
The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South • Amazon Business $11.01 1 $11.01
The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
To Night Owl From Dogfish • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Inventing Victoria • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Harbor Me • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
The Serpent King • Amazon Business $10.46 1 $10.46
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Modern Classics) • Amazon Business $10.12 1 $10.12
Nowhere Boy • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Red Ribbon • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Friendship War • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
Song for a Whale • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
Bang • Amazon Business $9.61 1 $9.61
How It Went Down • Amazon Business $9.47 1 $9.47
Friday Black • Amazon Business $9.37 1 $9.37
Shouting at the Rain • Amazon Business $9.32 1 $9.32
If I Should Die Before I Wake • Amazon Business $9.17 1 $9.17
With the Fire on High • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Journey That Saved Curious George : The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Payback on Poplar Lane (Poplar Kids) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Sound of Freedom (The Heroes Quartet) • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
Lies We Tell Ourselves: A New York Times bestseller (Harlequin Teen) • Amazon Business $8.77 1 $8.77
The Tyrant's Daughter • Amazon Business $8.66 1 $8.66
Lifeboat 12 • Amazon Business $8.59 1 $8.59
The Upside of Falling Down • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
A List of Cages • Amazon Business $8.48 1 $8.48
Searching for Lottie • Amazon Business $8.32 1 $8.32
The Pearl Thief • Amazon Business $8.32 1 $8.32
Paintings from the Cave: Three Novellas • Amazon Business $8.13 1 $8.13
Orphan Monster Spy • Amazon Business $8.02 1 $8.02
All of the Above • Amazon Business $8.00 1 $8.00
Born Blue • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Two Roads • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Code Name Verity • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Midnight Zoo • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Orphan Train Girl • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Rose Under Fire • Amazon Business $7.98 1 $7.98
Hedy's Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Whirligig • Amazon Business $7.67 1 $7.67
The Way to Bea • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
American Street • Amazon Business $7.55 1 $7.55
Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein: Based on a True Story • Amazon Business $7.52 1 $7.52
The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl • Amazon Business $7.51 1 $7.51
Trouble Don't Last • Amazon Business $7.49 1 $7.49
Little & Lion • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
Worth a Thousand Words • Amazon Business $7.33 1 $7.33
The Night She Disappeared • Amazon Business $7.33 1 $7.33
Far from the Tree • Amazon Business $7.23 1 $7.23
The Girl from Aleppo: Nujeen's Escape from War to Freedom • Amazon Business $7.00 1 $7.00
Small Spaces • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Lemonade Crime (The Lemonade War Series) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Lily's Crossing • Amazon Business $6.92 1 $6.92
Behind the Bedroom Wall (Historical Fiction for Young Readers) • Amazon Business $6.89 1 $6.89
The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
The War That Saved My Life • Amazon Business $6.70 1 $6.70
My Family Divided: One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope • Amazon Business $6.69 1 $6.69
Courage & Defiance: Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in WWII Denmark • Amazon Business $6.69 1 $6.69
Stef Soto, Taco Queen • Amazon Business $6.69 1 $6.69
The Night Diary • Amazon Business $6.49 1 $6.49
Soldier Boy • Amazon Business $6.37 1 $6.37
Genevieve's War • Amazon Business $6.21 1 $6.21
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street (1) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$899.62

Vendor shipping charges

$3.99

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.49

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$947.10

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$167.14

Total project goal

$1,114.24

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,114.24

10 Donors

-$868.53

Donations toward project cost

-$756.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$112.28

match offer

-$224.53

Match offer toward project cost

-$190.85

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.68

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$21.18

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$0.00

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