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Ms. Naomi from Byron MN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Diverse Reads for Black History Month

Help me give my students diverse biography books to inspire and educate them in time for Black History Month!

  • $600 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Do you remember that first book that seemed to open a whole new world for you? The one that made you stay up until long past your bedtime, flashlight on under the covers as you read page after page? That's the stage my students are at right now! They're such avid, enthusiastic readers, and always curious to learn more about their favorite topics, whether it be fishing, Minecraft, dogs, sharks, or science.

My students are right at that magical age where they're discovering themselves as readers and starting to explore new genres and topics, and it's such a joy to watch them grow as they learn more about the world and themselves.

My Project

Black History Month is nearly here, and as the primary school librarian, I'm busy searching for great read-aloud books to introduce our students to real-life Black heroes and heroines from our country's past. Unfortunately, our media center's biography section is extremely dated (most books there are 20-50 years old, much older than the average age of books in the rest of the library) and doesn't have much in the way of diverse offerings.

I would love to strengthen our collection with a variety of updated and diverse biographies so all of our students can see themselves reflected in what they read, and get a more diverse window on our country's history.

With these new books, I'll not only have plenty of wonderful options for Black History Month read aloud, but will be able to give our students a stronger variety of books to check out and learn from all year.

Ms. Naomi
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sharuko: El Arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello / Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello (Spanish and English Edition) • Amazon Business $18.74 1 $18.74
A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks (Volume 3) (People Who Shaped Our World) • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Digging for Words: José Alberto Gutiérrez and the Library He Built • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave • Amazon Business $17.18 1 $17.18
King Sejong Invents an Alphabet • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity: A Tale of the Genius Ramanujan • Amazon Business $16.59 1 $16.59
Nelson Mandela (Volume 73) (Little People, BIG DREAMS) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read • Amazon Business $15.89 1 $15.89
RESPECT: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul • Amazon Business $15.69 1 $15.69
Beautiful Shades of Brown: The Art of Laura Wheeler Waring • Amazon Business $15.69 1 $15.69
William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor (Volume 4) (People Who Shaped Our World) • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
Dark Was the Night: Blind Willie Johnson's Journey to the Stars • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Fauja Singh Keeps Going: The True Story of the Oldest Person to Ever Run a Marathon • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story • Amazon Business $13.19 1 $13.19
Rosa • Amazon Business $12.76 1 $12.76
Patricia's Vision: The Doctor Who Saved Sight (Volume 7) (People Who Shaped Our World) • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist • Amazon Business $12.28 1 $12.28
Shaped By Her Hands: Potter Maria Martinez (She Made History) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Thurgood • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
What Was the Holocaust? • Amazon Business $5.65 2 $11.30
Trailblazer: The Story of Ballerina Raven Wilkinson • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything (Inspiring Activism and Diversity Book About Children with Special Needs) • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Flight for Freedom: The Wetzel Family’s Daring Escape from East Germany (Berlin Wall History for Kids book; Nonfiction Picture Books) • Amazon Business $10.29 1 $10.29
Malala Yousafzai (Volume 57) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 57) • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
Martin Luther King Jr. (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 33) • Amazon Business $9.76 1 $9.76
Zaha Hadid (Volume 31) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 31) • Amazon Business $8.89 1 $8.89
Magic Trash: A Story of Tyree Guyton and His Art • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
The Story of Ruby Bridges: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story of: A Biography Series for New Readers) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Who Were the Navajo Code Talkers? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Sitting Bull? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Harvey Milk? • Amazon Business $5.45 1 $5.45
Who Was Nelson Mandela? • Amazon Business $5.29 1 $5.29
Who Was Cesar Chavez? • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Was Coretta Scott King? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Ida B. Wells? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Sojourner Truth? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$472.60

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.09

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$509.69

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$89.95

Total project goal

$599.64

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $599.64

12 Donors

-$469.93

Donations toward project cost

-$415.34

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.59

match offer

-$111.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$94.35

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.65

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$18.71

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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