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Ms. Wiltse from Chicago, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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We Need to Read Books by Chicago Authors!

Help me give my students books by terrific Chicago authors, past and present.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Wiltse's classroom raised $512

This project is fully funded

My Project

Our school is in Kenwood, a historic south-side neighborhood in Chicago. We are reopening a long-closed library and need books by Chicago authors.

We are not far from Bronzeville, yet we have no Gwendolyn Brooks poetry in our library.

We are just blocks north of University of Chicago's famous Eve Ewing, yet we have none of her works in our library. There are so many wonderful authors living and writing in Chicago today like May, Cisneros, Venkatesh, Jackson, Sanchez, and more that our students need to experience. This list includes classics to just-published books that will help our students appreciate the literary city they are a part of. This will help them become readers and writers following in these mighty literary footsteps!

Ms. Wiltse Martin L King College Preparatory High School Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

650 students impacted 5donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Woman Without Shame: Poems • Amazon Business $21.98 2 $43.96
1919 • Amazon Business $36.00 1 $36.00
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream • Amazon Business $31.99 1 $31.99
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side • Amazon Business $14.23 2 $28.46
The Tomorrow Game: Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them • Amazon Business $27.99 1 $27.99
1919 • Amazon Business $13.90 2 $27.80
More Than Meat and Raiment: Poems • Amazon Business $20.00 1 $20.00
Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School • Amazon Business $9.98 2 $19.96
The Bean Eaters • Amazon Business $19.88 1 $19.88
Her Word Is Bond: Navigating Hip Hop and Relationships in a Culture of Misogyny (Haymarket Books) • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir • Amazon Business $16.39 1 $16.39
The Billboard (Breakbeat Poets) • Amazon Business $16.00 1 $16.00
Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime • Amazon Business $15.40 1 $15.40
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service • Amazon Business $15.40 1 $15.40
How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do―And What It Says About You • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Bronzeville Boys and Girls • Amazon Business $14.79 1 $14.79
Bedrock Faith • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
The Chicago Race Riots and Chicago Commission Report: Illustrated 100th Anniversary Edition • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Chicago Poems • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99

Materials cost

$394.83

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.99

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.92

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$434.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.72

Total project goal

$511.46

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $511.46

3 Donors

-$293.23

Donations toward project cost

-$249.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.98

match offer

-$218.22

Match offer toward project cost

-$185.49

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.73

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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