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Dr. Carmickle from Phoenix, AZ is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Diverse Books!

Help me give my students books in which they see themselves on the page.

FULLY FUNDED! Dr. Carmickle's classroom raised $583

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

I believe it is important to get diverse books into the hands of young readers. By reading novels about different races, cultures, genders, and sexualities students are able to be transported to new places and engaging perspectives.

Children need to see themselves in the books they read.

My students are mostly Hispanic and Native, low income, and have limited access to literature. What literature they have seen is mostly by white authors and about white characters. For a kid to believe anything is possible, they must see themselves in books.

Dr. Carmickle Western Valley 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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More than half of 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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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) • Amazon Business $27.49 1 $27.49
The Librarian of Auschwitz • Amazon Business $22.99 1 $22.99
A Separate Peace • Amazon Business $15.30 1 $15.30
The Complete Persepolis • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
Cursed • Amazon Business $13.70 1 $13.70
One of Us Is Next: The Sequel to One of Us Is Lying • Amazon Business $13.26 1 $13.26
They Called Us Enemy • Amazon Business $13.12 1 $13.12
All These Bodies • Amazon Business $13.00 1 $13.00
The Lord of Opium (The House of the Scorpion) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
As Good as Dead: The Finale to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder • Amazon Business $12.72 1 $12.72
Good Girl, Bad Blood: The Sequel to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder • Amazon Business $12.13 1 $12.13
This One Summer • Amazon Business $11.57 1 $11.57
Uglies • Amazon Business $11.02 1 $11.02
One of Us Is Lying • Amazon Business $11.00 1 $11.00
American Born Chinese • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Someday • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
We Are Not Free • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives • Amazon Business $10.88 1 $10.88
Snowflake, AZ • Amazon Business $10.18 1 $10.18
We Are Not from Here • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Boy Meets Boy: 20th Anniversary Edition • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection (Paperback)) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Two Boys Kissing • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
The Knife of Never Letting Go (with bonus short story): Chaos Walking: Book One • Amazon Business $9.29 1 $9.29
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Internment • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Another Day (Every Day) • Amazon Business $8.98 1 $8.98
Dear Justyce • Amazon Business $8.64 1 $8.64
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March • Amazon Business $8.59 1 $8.59
The House of the Scorpion (House of the Scorpion, The) • Amazon Business $8.31 1 $8.31
Touching Spirit Bear (Spirit Bear, 1) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Flush • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Flying Lessons & Other Stories • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Scat • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Every Day • Amazon Business $7.56 1 $7.56
Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus • Amazon Business $6.59 1 $6.59
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • Amazon Business $5.91 1 $5.91
All American Boys • Amazon Business $5.07 1 $5.07

Materials cost

$428.24

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $30.62

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.42

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$495.28

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$87.40

Total project goal

$582.68

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $582.68

3 Donors

-$291.34

Donations toward project cost

-$247.64

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.70

match offer

-$291.34

Match offer toward project cost

-$247.64

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.70

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