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Ms. Cowan from Dixons Mills, AL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books! Books! Books!

Help me give my students books that they will love and enjoy reading!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Cowan's classroom raised $1,314

This project is fully funded

My Project

I am the local reading specialist at our High School! Our goal this year is to encourage students to read more books. Many of our students have expressed the desire to read books that are centered around their culture. This year, we have participated in read-a-thons and the accelerated reading program.

Our top readers are motivated but do not seem interested in the books that we have available.

Therefore, I have promised them that I will do all that I can to get books they will love. Please help us support our readers by sponsoring our project. It will mean the world to us!

Ms. Cowan Marengo High School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all 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

150 students impacted 3donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
4 High School Favorites #1 (Ages 14+): Becoming, Black Enough, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Blackout (paperback+hardcover book set) • MahoganyBooks $60.00 1 $60.00
Kaplan Early Learning Love is in the Hair Books - Set of 4 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $58.46 1 $58.46
Kaplan Early Learning Multicultural Books and CD - Set of 4 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $49.46 1 $49.46
4 Elementary Favorites #1 (Ages 8-12): Black Boy Joy, A Good Kind of Trouble, Stamped (For Kids), Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition (book set) • MahoganyBooks $46.00 1 $46.00
Achieve It! EllRay Jakes Book Series Variety Pack, Grades 1 to 3, Set of 6 - Grades 1-3 - Kids • School Specialty $40.49 1 $40.49
I Am Every Good Thing (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 2 $32.38
Decodable Readers: 15 Long Vowels with Final Silent E Phonics Books for Beginning Readers Ages 4-7 Developing Decoders (Set 7) • Amazon Business $29.99 1 $29.99
4 Book Bundle - Who HQ: Historical Moments #2 (paperback book set) • MahoganyBooks $26.96 1 $26.96
The Crossover Series 3-Book Box Set: The Crossover, Booked, Rebound (paperback book set) • MahoganyBooks $25.19 1 $25.19
Christopher Paul Curtis 3 Book Boxed Set (paperback book set) • MahoganyBooks $23.37 1 $23.37
4 Book Bundle - Who HQ: Historical Moments #1 (paperback book set) • MahoganyBooks $23.36 1 $23.36
4 Book Bundle - Who HQ: Contemporary Figures (paperback book set) • MahoganyBooks $22.46 1 $22.46
Good Things - social emotional learning picture book (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $22.00 1 $22.00
Be Bold! Be Brave! 11 Latinas Who Made U.S. History (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
More Than Peach: Bellen Woodard Original Picture Book (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
I Am Enough (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.10 1 $17.10
The Day You Begin (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.10 1 $17.10
Cool. Awkward. Black. (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Ada Twist, Scientist (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Clap When You Land (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults) (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Bunheads (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
I Am Smart, I Am Blessed, I Can Do Anything! (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Black is a Rainbow Color (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Fast Pitch (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Picture Book Edition (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Skin Like Mine (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.16 1 $16.16
Where Are You From? (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
Something to Say (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $15.29 1 $15.29
Becoming Muhammad Ali (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $15.29 1 $15.29
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $14.40 1 $14.40
This is Your Time (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $14.39 1 $14.39
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
I Choose to Try Again: A Colorful, Rhyming Picture Book About Perseverance and Diligence (Teacher and Therapist Toolbox: I Choose) • Amazon Business $11.85 1 $11.85
Brown Girl Dreaming (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $9.89 1 $9.89
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $9.89 1 $9.89
Beautiful Curly Me: Activity and Coloring Book • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $9.00 1 $9.00
Teni & Tayo - Legendary African Queens Coloring Book • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $9.00 1 $9.00
Pet (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.99 1 $8.99
Antiracist Baby Picture Book (hardcover picture book) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Max and the Tag-Along Moon (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Life in Motion: Unlikely Ballerina Young Readers Edition (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
A Good Kind of Trouble (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
The Only Black Girls in Town (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Whistle for Willie (board book) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (a Tristan Strong Novel, Book 1) • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56

Materials cost

$925.66

Vendor shipping charges

 $71.53

Sales tax

 $75.44

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,116.51

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$197.03

Total project goal

$1,313.54

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,313.54

3 Donors

-$1,313.54

Donations toward project cost

-$1,116.51

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$197.03

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