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Ms. Barnard from Middletown, DE is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Barnard's classroom raised $291

Diverse Books in the Library

Help me give my students a collection of fiction and nonfiction books that reflect and celebrate our school's diversity.

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Ms. Barnard Middletown High School
Middletown, DE Grades 9-12

My Project

I'm the librarian at a public high school with seventeen hundred students. They come from many different ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, and they have a wide array of abilities and skills, which they develop in a variety of academic and career tracks. My school offers students many opportunities to shine whether through sports, arts, academic pursuits, or vocational training, and they do.

When my students come to the library looking for leisure reading material, they are often drawn to books featuring characters that look like they do, and they are drawn to books written by authors who look like they do.

Diverse books serve as both mirrors and windows. Students need to see themselves in the books they read, as this helps them learn about and embrace who they are; books can provide affirmation and strengthen a student's sense of identity. At the same time, students also need books that provide a glimpse of how people who differ from them see and experience the world; such books help teach students that other perspectives are not just valid, but valuable, too.

Diverse books can be launchpads for conversations about difficult topics, and they can be foundations for building empathy, community, understanding, and justice.

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Ms. Barnard Middletown High School Grades 9-12 Middletown, DE View local requests 999 students impacted 1donor

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story • Amazon Business $22.79 1 $22.79
Other Side of the Tracks • Amazon Business $18.11 1 $18.11
Overground Railroad (The Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America • Amazon Business $16.89 1 $16.89
Rust in the Root • Amazon Business $16.69 1 $16.69
Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party • Amazon Business $15.69 1 $15.69
The Black Girls Left Standing • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
The Getaway • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
I Rise • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Burn Down, Rise Up • Amazon Business $10.69 1 $10.69
Blackout: A Novel • Amazon Business $10.44 1 $10.44
145th Street: Short Stories • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Love Is a Revolution • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Unequal: A Story of America • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
Survive the Dome • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
Let's Talk About Love • Amazon Business $9.29 1 $9.29

Materials cost

$213.71

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.21

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$246.92

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$43.57

Total project goal

$290.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $290.49

1 Donor

-$290.49

Donations toward project cost

-$246.92

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.57

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