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Ms. Brown from Las Vegas NV is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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We Need Diverse Books!

Help me give my students access to diverse and inclusive literature so that they are able to find pieces of themselves on a bookshelf.

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Children start developing their biases and understandings of differences between race, gender, and social status at a young age. Many of these biases may stem from biases they were exposed to in their upbringing, but they can also develop through the under-representation or representation of differences. The difference between the two is massive. When children experience under-representation and underexposure, they risk developing biases that may be exclusive and oppressive. With representation and celebration of differences, specifically through literature, teachers and students together combat these struggles one word at a time. As educators, the materials that we provide to our students serve as a bridge between our students and their understanding of the world and the different people inside of it. If we provide our students with literature that is representative of groups of people that do not normally receive representation, we are being proactive in creating an inclusive and welcoming environment where all backgrounds, stories, and struggles are heard and appreciated. Many students go a lifetime without reading or seeing stories that they relate to in their libraries. Accurate and fair representation means representing everyone. Muslim children, Chinese American families, African American stories, LGBTQIA+ experiences, Native American beliefs, and so much more! The collection of books that I have gathered in this project is a small chunk of the effort to be inclusive that our schools could work towards. My list includes a variety of cultural stories, by a diverse set of authors. By implementing a diverse range of titles, authors from different backgrounds, and colorful story lines into our libraries, we as educators are ensuring that every student will find a piece of themselves within the binds of a book.

Ms. Brown
Never Before Funded Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $25.00 1 $25.00
Four Eyes: A Graphic Novel (paperback graphic novel) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 2 $24.00
4 Book Bundle - Who HQ: Civil Rights Figures (paperback book set) • MahoganyBooks $21.56 1 $21.56
A Kids Book About Pride (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
A Kids Book About Equality - identity-affirming collection (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Thirst (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Worldwide Buddies: China's Child (hardcover picture book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Apple: Skin to the Core (YA paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Bowwow Powwow (hardcover picture book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
A Kids Book About Feminism - identity-affirming collection (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
A Kids Book About Identity - identity-affirming collection (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
A Day With No Words (neurodiversity hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
They Called Us Enemy (paperback graphic novel) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
Mae Among the Stars (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
Be Bold! Be Brave! 11 Latinas Who Made U.S. History (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
A Black Women's History of the United States (YA paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
Courageous Camila: A Story about Finding Your Inner Warrior (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story (hardcover picture book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
Justice Rising: 12 Amazing Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Hair Like Mine (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.06 1 $17.06
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $17.00 1 $17.00
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Fast Pitch (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Skin Like Mine (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.16 1 $16.16
American Born Chinese (YA paperback graphic novel) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
Your Name is a Song (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $15.29 1 $15.29
Mi Familia: A Mexican American Family (Spanish edition paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
We Are Water Protectors (hardcover picture book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $14.00 1 $14.00
A Little Book About Activism (board book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $13.00 1 $13.00
A Little Book About Equity (board book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $13.00 1 $13.00
A Little Book About Bias (board book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $13.00 1 $13.00
Lil' Libros: VÁMONOS: Oaxaca (bilingual English/Spanish board book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
The Story of Frida Kahlo (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
Invisible: A Graphic Novel (paperback graphic novel) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
Pink Is for Boys (board book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
Alvin Ailey (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
Esperanza Rising (YA paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
A Long Walk to Water (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Melissa (paperback) - formerly published as George • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls Rights (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Concrete Kids (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09

Materials cost

$738.63

Vendor shipping charges

 $17.76

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.08

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$797.47

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$140.73

Total project goal

$938.20

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $938.20

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 $938.20

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