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Mrs. Miles from Atlanta GA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Diverse Book Club for Extraordinary Teens

My students need diverse books that feature kids like them in fantastic worlds.

  • $609 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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 bright, creative and curious about the world around them. They have dreams to become game designers, actors and even funeral home operators, but they live in an environment that is not kind to dreamers. At the southernmost tip of Atlanta, our school is nestled in the poorest zip code in the city. Ninety-five percent of my students receive free and reduced priced lunch and are economically disadvantaged. Furthermore, a growing number of our students are first generation immigrants just learning to speak English and many will be the first in their families to pursue college, if not the first to graduate high school.

My Project

Less than 3% of books written for teens are written by authors of color and feature kids of color, but they do exist and my kids need to see themselves within them. Many times the books that are offered to teens of color feature kids dealing with some kind of tragedy that has to deal with their race. Their race is presented as a problem to overcome instead of being celebrated or even incidental.

I want to present my book club with a different narrative.

I want them to see kids of color in space, slaying dragons and exploring new worlds. Rocket Romance and Binti are novellas set in outer space and A Bitter Pill to Swallow deals with an often overlooked aspect of African-American culture, mental illness.

Mrs. Miles
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Rocket Romance • Amazon Business $14.50 15 $217.50
A Bitter Pill to Swallow (Gail Edition - Paperback) • Amazon Business $9.99 15 $149.85
Binti • Amazon Business $5.49 15 $82.35

Materials cost

$449.70

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $31.03

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$517.48

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$91.32

Total project goal

$608.80

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $608.80

6 Donors

-$303.96

Donations toward project cost

-$259.12

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.84

match offer

-$303.95

Match offer toward project cost

-$258.36

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$45.59

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.89

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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