Give My Students Nonfiction Books They’ll Actually Want to Read!
Help me give my students in AP Language engaging non-fiction texts from diverse voices!
$499 goal
This project expired on September 22, 2025.
This project expired on September 22, 2025.
My Project
Many high school students groan when they hear the word “nonfiction.” They expect dry, dense texts with little relevance to their lives. But it doesn’t have to be that way! In my AP Language and Composition class specifically, we focus on analyzing how nonfiction writers use language to inform, persuade, and inspire. There’s no better way to learn this than through powerful texts that reflect the world around them!
With your support, I hope to build a classroom library of engaging, relevant nonfiction books written by diverse authors.
Well-known and engaging books like Just Mercy, The Warmth of Other Suns, and Born a Crime help students see connections between language, identity, justice, and power. These texts open up rich discussions, deepen writing skills, and help students grow as critical thinkers.
Right now, I don’t have enough of these kinds of books on hand. With your help, I can offer my students access to books that matter. These are stories that will stick with them, challenge them, and help them become better readers, writers, and people!
Thank you for supporting the love of reading in my classroom!
The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
• Amazon Business
$23.00
1
$23.00
Poverty, by America
• Amazon Business
$19.60
1
$19.60
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
• Amazon Business
$16.57
1
$16.57
Mistrial: An Inside Look at How the Criminal Justice System Works...and Sometimes Doesn't
• Amazon Business
$16.21
1
$16.21
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
• Amazon Business
$15.95
1
$15.95
Call Us What We Carry: Poems
• Amazon Business
$15.49
1
$15.49
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (Harrowing Historical Nonfiction Bestseller About a Courageous Fight for Justice)
• Amazon Business
$14.20
1
$14.20
Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
• Amazon Business
$13.37
1
$13.37
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
• Amazon Business
$13.37
1
$13.37
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
• Amazon Business
$12.99
1
$12.99
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
• Amazon Business
$12.66
1
$12.66
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
• Amazon Business
$11.99
1
$11.99
Between the World and Me
• Amazon Business
$11.88
1
$11.88
Educated: A Memoir
• Amazon Business
$11.61
1
$11.61
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
• Amazon Business
$11.41
1
$11.41
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (20th Anniversary Edition)
• Amazon Business
$11.39
1
$11.39
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (One World Essentials)
• Amazon Business
$11.34
1
$11.34
Ain't Burned All the Bright
• Amazon Business
$11.32
1
$11.32
How to Be an Antiracist (One World Essentials)
• Amazon Business
$11.14
1
$11.14
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
• Amazon Business
$11.05
1
$11.05
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
• Amazon Business
$10.47
1
$10.47
Me Talk Pretty One Day
• Amazon Business
$10.00
1
$10.00
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
• Amazon Business
$9.99
1
$9.99
Outliers: The Story of Success
• Amazon Business
$9.82
1
$9.82
The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner
• Amazon Business
$9.60
1
$9.60
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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$9.31
1
$9.31
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (One World Essentials)
• Amazon Business
$8.57
1
$8.57
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• Amazon Business
$8.56
1
$8.56
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
• Amazon Business
$8.49
1
$8.49
We Should All Be Feminists
• Amazon Business
$7.78
1
$7.78
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
• Amazon Business
$7.67
1
$7.67
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
• Amazon Business
$6.89
1
$6.89
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Signet Classics)
• Amazon Business
$4.60
1
$4.60
Materials cost
$388.29
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$5.82
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$424.11
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$74.84
Total project goal
$498.95
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