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Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer Powell from Lexington, KY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books for Our Diverse Readers

Help me give my students books to promote diversity and justice for diverse readers.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer Powell's classroom raised $786

This project is fully funded

My Project

Our language arts classroom provides students with a wide range of books with characters and themes that best matches their interests and needs. We seek to build a classroom library that represents the diversity in our classroom community.

Books written with African American and Hispanic protagonists are important for students to read that best represents them.

Books by Kwame Alexander, Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, and Raina Telgemeier will help add high-interest and diverse books to our classroom library that will enable students to read and explore topics and interests that provoke thought and help build lifelong readers.

The Jason Reynolds Track Series books, March Graphic Novel Trilogy, Women in Black History, and a coloring book for newcomers are just a few that will encourage students to read.

Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer Powell Winburn Middle School Grades 6-8

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Duel (paperback graphic novel) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 5 $75.00
4 Book Set: YA Paperback Book Club (ages 12+) - Abuela, Don't Forget Me, Harvest House, Last Cuentista, The Cost of Knowing • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $52.00 1 $52.00
3 Book Set: 2024 Award Winners - The First State of Being, Mid-Air, Wild Dreamers (3 hardcover fiction stories from underrepresented authors) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $52.00 1 $52.00
MARCH (Trilogy Slipcase Set) 3 Book Set x Black Books Matter from MahoganyBooks - featured Black History Month books for classroom library • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $49.00 1 $49.00
3 Book Set: Graphic Novels - Jerry Craft Author Study: New Kid, Class Act, School Trip (paperback) x Black Books Matter from MahoganyBooks • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $38.00 1 $38.00
4 Book Set: Jason Reynolds & Track Series Collection (paperback boxed, 10+) x MahoganyBooks - featured Black History Month books for classroom library • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $30.00 1 $30.00
4 Book Set - Who HQ: Contemporary Figures: Venus & Serena Williams, Simone Biles, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan (paperback) x MahoganyBooks • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $28.00 1 $28.00
Call Us What We Carry (hardcover) x Black Books Matter from MahoganyBooks • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $26.00 1 $26.00
Coloring Without Borders: Collaborative, Bilingual Coloring Book (Spanish English book, newcomers, English language learners, kindness, art therapy) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $24.00 1 $24.00
Como Yo / Like Me SPANISH Edition (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 2 $24.00
The Year We Learned to Fly (hardcover picture book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Rebound (The Crossover Series) (paperback) x Black Books Matter from MahoganyBooks • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 2 $20.00
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
Kingston and the Magician's Lost and Found (hardcover, ages 10+) x Black Books Matter from MahoganyBooks • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
Mae Among the Stars (hardcover STEM picture book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
Before the Ever After (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
A Black Women's History of the United States (YA paperback) - featured Black History Month books for classroom library • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
A Place Inside of Me A Poem to Heal the Heart - Caldecott Honor Book (hardcover picture book, poetic) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race (hardcover - featured Black History Month books for classroom library • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
The Poet X (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
Discovering Wes Moore (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $14.00 1 $14.00
The Story of Simone Biles (paperback biography; Team USA 2024 Olympics Gold Medalist, women's gymnastics) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (YA paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
Flying Lessons and Other Stories (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00

Materials cost

$628.00

Vendor shipping charges

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Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.42

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$667.42

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$117.78

Total project goal

$785.20

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $785.20

6 Donors

-$442.60

Donations toward project cost

-$376.21

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$66.39

Matching donations from our partners

-$342.60

Match offers toward project cost

-$291.21

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$51.39

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