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Mrs. Nix from Utica NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Diverse Books for Diverse Readers

Help me give my students books with characters that reflect the diversity of our neighborhood.

  • $699 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are predominantly low-income and/or refugees from Myanmar and Sudan; how are, as a refugee relocation city, we have students from Tanzania, Bosnia, Russia, Vietnam, Congo, Iran, China, and many other countries. It is not uncommon to have 10 or more native languages in one classroom. My students value education and their community.

Help me stock our local Little Free Library with books that reflects the diversity of our neighborhood.

I am hoping to creating and stock several Little Free Library locations throughout the community. We would normally ask the vo-tech and shop students to help us out building them, but since we aren't in school, this is a huge barrier!

My Project

We are starting a Little Free Library (the first of hopefully many) in our richly diverse community. Our community does not always have access to books because our library is a long walk from where we live. Many of our neighbors do not have cars. This will be an opportunity for them to read books with characters who look like them.

Students in my community deserve to have access to books where the characters look like they do.

Help us build our little free library so our community can continue to flourish.

Mrs. Nix
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Toni Morrison Box Set: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved • Amazon Business $40.50 1 $40.50
The Complete Poetry • Amazon Business $21.00 1 $21.00
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) • Amazon Business $18.90 1 $18.90
And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Chocolate Milk, Por Favor: Celebrating Diversity with Empathy • Amazon Business $15.95 1 $15.95
The Temple of My Familiar • Amazon Business $15.89 1 $15.89
Hot Comb • Amazon Business $15.59 1 $15.59
The Color Purple: A Novel • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World (Vashti Harrison) • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
Badass Black Girl: Questions, Quotes, and Affirmations for Teens (Teen and YA Self-Esteem, for Readers of All Boys Aren´t Blue) • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
The Bear and the Fern • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
Meridian • Amazon Business $13.78 1 $13.78
What Should Danny Do? (The Power to Choose Series) • Amazon Business $13.19 1 $13.19
Go with the Flow • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
The Bluest Eye (Vintage International) • Amazon Business $11.90 1 $11.90
Shy Ninja: A Children's Book About Social Emotional Learning and Overcoming Social Anxiety (Ninja Life Hacks) • Amazon Business $11.82 1 $11.82
Catherine's War • Amazon Business $11.81 1 $11.81
Pashmina • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? • Amazon Business $11.40 1 $11.40
Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Diversity Ninja: An Anti-racist, Diverse Children’s Book About Racism and Prejudice, and Practicing Inclusion, Diversity, and Equality (Ninja Life Hacks) • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
Jilly's Terrible Temper Tantrums: And How She Outgrew Them • Amazon Business $10.69 1 $10.69
Grumpy Monkey • Amazon Business $10.62 1 $10.62
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (Vashti Harrison) • Amazon Business $10.26 1 $10.26
Noise: A graphic novel based on a true story • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
ABC I Love Me • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
I Can Do It Too! • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
On The Come Up • Amazon Business $9.45 1 $9.45
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems • Amazon Business $9.19 1 $9.19
Black Women in Science: A Black History Book for Kids • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Brown Boy Brown Boy What Can You Be? • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Funny Girl: Funniest. Stories. Ever. • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
All Summer Long (Eagle Rock Series (1)) • Amazon Business $8.29 1 $8.29
The Colors of Us • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Baby Says Board Book • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
El Deafo • Amazon Business $7.44 1 $7.44
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day • Amazon Business $7.17 1 $7.17
Whose Toes Are Those? • Amazon Business $6.89 1 $6.89
Think Big, Little One (Vashti Harrison) • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
Piecing Me Together • Amazon Business $6.39 1 $6.39
Click (A Click Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
Please, Baby, Please (Classic Board Books) • Amazon Business $6.19 1 $6.19
Happy in Our Skin • Amazon Business $6.19 1 $6.19
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings • Amazon Business $6.11 1 $6.11
39 Lessons for Black Boys & Girls • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Dear Martin • Amazon Business $5.48 1 $5.48
We're Different, We're the Same (Sesame Street) (Pictureback(R)) • Amazon Business $4.11 1 $4.11

Materials cost

$550.58

Vendor shipping charges

 $4.49

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.26

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$593.33

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$104.71

Total project goal

$698.04

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $698.04

6 Donors

-$369.02

Donations toward project cost

-$313.67

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.35

Matching donations from our partners

-$329.01

Match offers toward project cost

-$279.66

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$49.35

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