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ALA Youth Media Award Books in the Library
This project expired on May 26, 2020.
My Students
My students live in a small, rural, farming community. I have been their librarian since fall 2018 and we have had so much fun reading stories together. The students are creative and curious. Our town has about 1,200 people. Many students are from low income households, and thus are confined to the resources and experiences available right here in our homogeneous rural town. There is so much for them to learn about the world outside of our small town, and books are a way for them to expand their horizons.
My Project
My students live in a small, rural, homogeneous town. Many are from low income households, which means their families are not able to provide many (or any) experiences outside of their small window of the world.
I want to provide my students with the 2020 American Library Association's Youth Media Award books so that they have amazing stories from many voices. We have some of this year's winners and honorees already, but not all. I want to give my students the books that have been deemed the best of the year. I want to support my students in learning about the world and other people's experiences of it through a love of literature.
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Materials
Cost
Quantity
Total
Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace
• Amazon Business
$18.59
1
$18.59
Across the Bay
• Amazon Business
$17.99
1
$17.99
The Key from Spain: Flory Jagoda and Her Music
• Amazon Business
$17.99
1
$17.99
Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany
• Amazon Business
$16.99
1
$16.99
Do Fish Sleep?
• Amazon Business
$16.95
1
$16.95
Bilal Cooks Daal
• Amazon Business
$16.29
1
$16.29
Sulwe
• Amazon Business
$16.19
1
$16.19
Genesis Begins Again
• Amazon Business
$16.19
1
$16.19
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
• Amazon Business
$14.87
1
$14.87
The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come
• Amazon Business
$14.59
1
$14.59
The Distance between Me and the Cherry Tree
• Amazon Business
$14.51
1
$14.51
Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship"
• Amazon Business
$14.39
1
$14.39
Indian No More
• Amazon Business
$13.89
1
$13.89
All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World
• Amazon Business
$13.49
1
$13.49
New Kid
• Amazon Business
$13.43
1
$13.43
Scary Stories for Young Foxes
• Amazon Business
$12.99
1
$12.99
Bowwow Powwow (ALA Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards))
• Amazon Business
$12.99
1
$12.99
Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom (People Who Shaped Our World)
• Amazon Business
$12.89
1
$12.89
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belprxe9
• Amazon Business
$12.89
1
$12.89
Double Bass Blues
• Amazon Business
$12.79
1
$12.79
Hey, Water!
• Amazon Business
$12.74
1
$12.74
When Spring Comes to the DMZ
• Amazon Business
$12.29
1
$12.29
I Can Make This Promise
• Amazon Business
$11.39
1
$11.39
This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality
• Amazon Business
$11.38
1
$11.38
Other Words for Home
• Amazon Business
$10.99
1
$10.99
Gittel's Journey: An Ellis Island Story
• Amazon Business
$10.89
1
$10.89
xa1Vamos! Let's Go to the Market (English and Spanish Edition)
• Amazon Business
$10.85
1
$10.85
Each Tiny Spark
• Amazon Business
$10.79
1
$10.79
The Other Half of Happy: (Middle Grade Novel for Ages 9-12, Bilingual Tween Book)
• Amazon Business
$10.59
1
$10.59
The Bell Rang
• Amazon Business
$10.49
1
$10.49
I'm Ok
• Amazon Business
$10.37
1
$10.37
Song for a Whale
• Amazon Business
$9.98
1
$9.98
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Tristan Strong (1))
• Amazon Business
$8.99
1
$8.99
Anya and the Dragon
• Amazon Business
$8.49
1
$8.49
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (A Sal and Gabi Novel, Book 1) (A Sal and Gabi Novel (1))
• Amazon Business
$8.49
1
$8.49
A Friend for Henry: (Books About Making Friends, Children's Friendship Books, Autism Awareness Books for Kids)
• Amazon Business
$8.19
1
$8.19
Materials cost
$467.81
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$7.02
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$504.83
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$89.09
Total project goal
$593.92
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