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Mrs. Dillard from Sparks, NV is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Diverse Graphic Novels and High-Interest Reads for Teens

Help me give my students windows into diverse experiences and points of view with this selection of award-winning and high interest titles!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Dillard's classroom raised $671

This project is fully funded

My Students

Our high school is home to some of the most driven, appreciative, and inspiring students around. Approximately 2200+ students attend our high school, established in 1976. Our kids come from diverse economic and cultural backgrounds. At our school, you'll see that we have a terrific program supporting spectrum folks and those with other special needs and abilities, an ELL program, robust AP and honors classes, and dedicated athletes. We're the most diverse (and best!) school in the district. It's an honor to be the librarian, attempting to bring books and technology that will further inspire and support these kids. Come check out one of our stellar musicals and cheer on our teams--you won't regret it!

My Project

Our students are voracious readers of graphic novels, so we would love to expand that section of our library to include more titles that offer cultural and historical perspectives. Other titles address our need for high-interest new books for readers across a variety of genres.

Many of our graphic novel fans enjoy browsing for new books, and this array of artistic and thought-provoking works is bound to expand their understanding of the world and its people.

High-interest titles will invite readers to find enjoyable and compelling stories. Both types of books in this book are bound to get a lot of attention and appreciation in the library!

Mrs. Dillard Edward C Reed High School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Sparks, NV View local requests

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

999 students impacted 3donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
59 Hours (Simon True) • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
Extreme Abilities: Amazing Human Feats and the Simple Science Behind Them • Amazon Business $19.95 1 $19.95
Poppies of Iraq • Amazon Business $18.28 1 $18.28
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White • Amazon Business $18.02 1 $18.02
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos, and Me • Amazon Business $17.33 1 $17.33
One Cut (Simon True) • Amazon Business $17.19 1 $17.19
Sorry for Your Loss • Amazon Business $16.05 1 $16.05
Escape from Syria • Amazon Business $15.43 1 $15.43
In This Corner of the World • Amazon Business $15.26 1 $15.26
Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution (Comix Journalism) • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir • Amazon Business $14.54 1 $14.54
Greystone Secrets #1: The Strangers • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Martí's Song for Freedom / Martí y sus versos por la libertad (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
Sherwood • Amazon Business $13.85 1 $13.85
Rendez-vous in Phoenix • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer • Amazon Business $13.55 1 $13.55
The Voice in My Head • Amazon Business $12.91 1 $12.91
Happy Messy Scary Love • Amazon Business $12.91 1 $12.91
A Cave in the Clouds: A Young Woman's Escape from ISIS • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
Famous in a Small Town • Amazon Business $12.30 1 $12.30
Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, and Murdered Through History • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
Since We Last Spoke • Amazon Business $12.23 1 $12.23
Five Midnights • Amazon Business $12.22 1 $12.22
I Love You So Mochi • Amazon Business $12.12 1 $12.12
They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems • Amazon Business $11.97 1 $11.97
A Fire Story • Amazon Business $11.15 1 $11.15
Tamamo the Fox Maiden: and Other Asian Stories (Cautionary Fables and Fairytales) • Amazon Business $10.92 1 $10.92
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir • Amazon Business $10.80 1 $10.80
The Girl Who Married a Skull: and Other African Stories (Cautionary Fables and Fairytales) • Amazon Business $10.40 1 $10.40
Here to Stay • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots • Amazon Business $9.88 1 $9.88
Little White Duck: A Childhood in China (Single Titles) • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
Deep Water (Simon True) • Amazon Business $9.70 1 $9.70
Trail of Crumbs • Amazon Business $9.45 1 $9.45
Yes She Can: 10 Stories of Hope & Change from Young Female Staffers of the Obama White House • Amazon Business $8.47 1 $8.47
I Moved to Los Angeles to Work in Animation • Amazon Business $7.40 1 $7.40

Materials cost

$494.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$38.78

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.41

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$570.19

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$100.62

Total project goal

$670.81

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$670.81

3 Donors

-$670.81

Donations toward project cost

-$570.19

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$100.62

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$0.00

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