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Ms. George from Oak Park MI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Representation Matters!

Help me give my students mirrors so they can see themselves in the pages of picture books.

  • 1 donor
  • $272 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Project

Books can fuel our imagination and inspire a world of possibilities. Therefore, it is essential that our stories include characters that represent the students who are reading them. It is also important for students to see people from a similar background as the authors and illustrators of the books they read.

Our students are drawn to books featuring main characters that look like them.

They want to see themselves as detectives, superheroes, good friends, inventors, etc. Students always notice when I hang up new book covers featuring African American characters. Our young readers will point to the cover and ask "Where can I find that book?" Books with representative main characters are consistently among the most-often checked out books. This project will provide even more books featuring diverse characters so students have these mirrors to see themselves doing amazing things.

Ms. George
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
My Friend! • Amazon Business $18.26 1 $18.26
Chocolate Me! • Amazon Business $14.69 1 $14.69
Ice Cream Face • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Kick Push • Amazon Business $13.39 1 $13.39
I Got the Rhythm • Amazon Business $12.69 1 $12.69
I Got the School Spirit • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
Lola at the Library (Lola Reads) • Amazon Business $11.49 1 $11.49
Not Quite Snow White • Amazon Business $11.40 1 $11.40
Lola Gets a Cat (Lola Reads) • Amazon Business $11.19 1 $11.19
The Queen of Kindergarten • Amazon Business $10.30 1 $10.30
Lola Goes to School (Lola Reads) • Amazon Business $10.29 1 $10.29
Mixed Me! • Amazon Business $10.29 1 $10.29
The King of Kindergarten • Amazon Business $10.17 1 $10.17
Better Together, Cinderella • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Lola Sleeps Over (Lola Reads) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Hair Love • Amazon Business $9.73 1 $9.73
Lola Reads to Leo (Leo Can!) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99

Materials cost

$197.84

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.97

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$230.81

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$40.73

Total project goal

$271.54

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $271.54

1 Donor

-$271.54

Donations toward project cost

-$230.81

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.73

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 $0.00

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