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Mrs. McKittrick from Seattle, WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mrs. McKittrick's classroom raised $810

Get a (Non-fiction Reading) Life!

My students need a selection of 43 non-fiction book titles that reflect who they are and their experiences. For many male students, non-fiction is all they will read.

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Mrs. McKittrick Madison Middle School
Seattle, WA Grades 6-8

My Students

"There are different strokes for different folks." The only way to create life long readers is to flood students with a wide range of interesting reading materials. Non-fiction books are most often the "in" for reluctant readers in my classroom.

The students in my room come from various backgrounds- economic and cultural- and bring with them a wide variety of abilities and interest levels.

In a typical class, we have students new to the US from North Africa and South America , students with IEPs, title one qualified students, and the talented and gifted kids all together with the "general" education students. The diversity of the students requires a diversity of reading materials: wide ranges of levels and non-fiction topics that reflect the faces and experiences of students in my classroom.

My Project

A key to engagement is relevancy. How do these books relate to me? The diversity of books in the project reflects the diversity of the students in my room. Additionally, there are students in my room who will not read anything that is not "real" and my library needs a dose of "real" for these readers. The Tookie Williams book, for example, hooks many of my adolescent boys and generates its own reader wait list. After reading that book and the conversations it generates, boys start searching out equally "hot topics" for their next reads.

By providing books "just for them," not only will students be able to craft and expand their reading lives, but they will also see that adults do care about them enough to meet their individual book needs.

This builds trust and a bond with school, which are both keys to academic success.

100 students impacted 16 donors
Mrs. McKittrick Madison Middle School Grades 6-8 Seattle, WA View local requests 100 students impacted 16donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Warriors Don't Cry Melba Pattillo Beals • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row Susan Kuklin • Barnes and Noble $12.30 1 $12.30
Life in Prison Stanley Williams, With Barbara Cottman Becnel, With Barbara Cottman • Barnes and Noble $5.12 1 $5.12
The Burn Journals Brent Runyon • Barnes and Noble $9.57 1 $9.57
Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case Chris Crowe • Barnes and Noble $12.98 1 $12.98
Race Matters Cornel West, LuAnn Walther (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $9.57 1 $9.57
With Their Eyes: September 11th -- The View from a High School at Ground Zero Annie Thoms, Taresh Batra (Editor), Created by Taresh Batra, Created by Anna Belc • Barnes and Noble $6.83 1 $6.83
Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope Jenna Bush, Mia Baxter (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.54 1 $8.54
Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories Ellen Levine • Barnes and Noble $6.83 1 $6.83
Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets Beatrice Sparks, Foreword by Phillip Morgenstern • Barnes and Noble $5.12 1 $5.12
They Broke the Law, You Be the Judge: True Stories of Teen Crime Thomas A. Jacobs, Al Desetta (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $12.98 1 $12.98
Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States Lori Marie Carlson, Oscar Hijuelos (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $13.76 1 $13.76
China's Son: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution Da Chen • Barnes and Noble $5.55 1 $5.55
Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes Carl Waldman, Molly Braun (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $17.82 1 $17.82
War Is...: Soldiers, Survivors and Storytellers Talk about War Marc Aronson (Editor), Patty Campbell (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
Police Lab: How Forensic Science Tracks Down and Convicts Criminals David Owen, Foreword by Antonio J. Mendez • Barnes and Noble $8.50 1 $8.50
Juvenile Crime Heidi Williams • Barnes and Noble $30.56 1 $30.56
Savages Joe Kane, Marty Asher (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $12.99 1 $12.99
Our Stories Remember: American Indian History, Culture, and Values through Storytelling Joseph Bruchac • Barnes and Noble $15.38 1 $15.38
Novio Boy: A Play Gary Soto • Barnes and Noble $5.08 1 $5.08
In Love and in Danger: A Teen's Guide to Breaking Free of Abusive Relationships Barrie Levy • Barnes and Noble $10.51 1 $10.51
Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till Simeon Wright, With Herb Boyd • Barnes and Noble $16.19 1 $16.19
Environmentalism in America Gale Group • Barnes and Noble $25.42 1 $25.42
Race: A History Beyond Black and White Marc Aronson • Barnes and Noble $15.41 1 $15.41
33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women's History: From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the ERA Tonya Bolden (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $10.51 1 $10.51
Gangs Peggy J. Parks • Barnes and Noble $23.03 1 $23.03
Black Pioneers: An Untold Story William Loren Katz • Barnes and Noble $18.80 1 $18.80
African Americans in Film and Television (African-American Contributions Series) Cookie Lommel • Barnes and Noble $25.65 1 $25.65
Black Women Activists Karin Coddon • Barnes and Noble $32.87 1 $32.87
Braid of Lives: Native American Childhood Neil Philip (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $16.24 1 $16.24
Central American Immigrants to the United States: Refugees from Unrest Eric Schwartz • Barnes and Noble $19.61 1 $19.61
Chinese Americans Michael Martin, Sheila Wood Foard, Senator Daniel Moynihan (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $25.65 1 $25.65
Corpses, Coffins and Crypts: A History of Burial Penny Colman • Barnes and Noble $18.63 1 $18.63
Every Human Has Rights: A Photographic Declaration for Kids National Geographic, Foreword by Mary Robinson, Elderslie Township Historical Society Staff (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $14.57 1 $14.57
Filipino Immigration Jim Corrigan, Stuart Anderson (Editor), Foreword by Marian L. Smith • Barnes and Noble $18.96 1 $18.96
Gamers Unite!: The Video Game Revolution Shane Frederick • Barnes and Noble $15.69 1 $15.69
Half and Half: Writers on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural Claudine C. O'Hearn • Barnes and Noble $11.32 1 $11.32
My Sisters' Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out Iris Jacob (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $12.17 1 $12.17
Separate, but Not Equal: The Dream and the Struggle James Haskins, Jim Haskins • Barnes and Noble $4.26 1 $4.26
Slavery Today Kevin Bales, Rebecca Cornell • Barnes and Noble $8.12 1 $8.12
Teenage Refugees from Somalia Speak Out Ikram Hussein, I. Hussein • Barnes and Noble $12.88 1 $12.88
Teenage Refugees from Rwanda Speak Out Aimable Twagilimana, A. Twagilimanaph D. • Barnes and Noble $12.88 1 $12.88
Yell-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American Vickie Nam, Foreword by Phoebe Eng • Barnes and Noble $11.36 1 $11.36

Materials cost

$592.15

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $51.81

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$687.84

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$121.38

Total project goal

$809.22

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $809.22

11 Donors

-$750.09

Donations toward project cost

-$687.84

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$62.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$59.13

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

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