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Ms. Dunnell from Saint Louis MO is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Diverse Books for Diverse Students

Help me give my students more diverse books to read. Seeing themselves in the books on my shelves will encourage them to read more.

  • $239 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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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 high school students are living their best lives and becoming proactive, productive, and positive pieces of their community and the world. My scholars have grown up in an area filled with turmoil and trauma, but they have overcome the negatives and are living their lives in a positive way.

My students are living in poverty.

They attend a Title I school. Every day they have struggles, but none of them let their struggles define them. They will succeed at whatever they put their mind to because they are hard-working​, passionate, and want to be better than a stereotype.

My Project

By having a diverse library of books in my classroom, I am giving my students more ways to see themselves in the books they read. By having books available with characters that look like my students, I am showing them that they are important and loved.

Reading is not a favorite activity for many teenagers, but giving them books they can relate to makes it much more enjoyable.

Hopefully these new books to my classroom library will help my students find stories they love and can relate to. The love of one book can lead to a lifelong love of reading.

Ms. Dunnell
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
When Stars Are Scattered • AKJ Education $15.32 1 $15.32
Separate Is Never Equal • AKJ Education $13.27 1 $13.27
Every Body Looking • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Big Smoke • AKJ Education $11.11 1 $11.11
America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction • AKJ Education $9.36 1 $9.36
Eyes Wide Open • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
The Silence of Murder • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Hidden Girl • AKJ Education $8.00 1 $8.00
Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Black Heroes of the Wild West • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Chill Wind • AKJ Education $7.27 1 $7.27
Mexican WhiteBoy • AKJ Education $6.99 1 $6.99
Let the Circle Be Unbroken • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Contender • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Addie on the Inside • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Chains: Seeds of America • AKJ Education $5.98 1 $5.98
A Long Walk to Water • AKJ Education $5.28 1 $5.28
Followers • AKJ Education $5.19 1 $5.19

Materials cost

$164.33

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.46

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$202.79

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$35.79

Total project goal

$238.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $238.58

3 Donors

-$139.88

Donations toward project cost

-$126.40

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.48

match offer

-$89.87

Match offer toward project cost

-$76.39

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.48

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.83

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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