The Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School library will offer multiple copies of eight, high-interest, new titles each month for eight months to their middle school readers to ignite a passion for not only reading books, but sharing in the love of reading.

This project will provide books about and by women of color. The books will help amplify the voices of those who were historically oppressed and marginalized. Connecting the shelves’ stories to the girls’ resilience will emphasize the books’ place in writing their own story.

Buffalo Collegiate will transform their small “”rolling cart”” library to a dedicated library space. This project will fill their shelves with culturally-relevant, fun and rigorous books to engage the various reading levels of their students.

ReadWokeButler will provide the Butler High community with reading material that promotes diversity, inclusion, and mutual
respect for others. Founded by Cicely Lewis, a library media specialist at Meadowcreek High School in Georgia, the Read Woke movement encourages students to read books that “challenge a social norm; give voice to the voiceless; provide information about a group that has been disenfranchised; seek to challenge the status quo; include a protagonist from an underrepresented or oppressed group.” She invites educators around the world to join the movement, and Butler High School is all in!

This project will update and refresh the fiction and picture book collection. It will also be used to completely replace the well loved and worn nonfiction books about dinosaurs and sharks. These are 2 sections in the library that are consistently checked out no matter the collection or the age!

This project will provide an in-classroom library for each of the school’s 25 elementary classrooms. Every classroom will include approximately 300 books that span a rich variety of genres, so children will have a broad range of book selections that match their personal tastes.

This project will create an indigenous-rooted library that affirms and supports our young people and our community. Begun as a homeschool resource center for kids at the Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock whose families were standing in support of the water and against an oil pipeline, Mni Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋ Wóuŋspe will now be a long-term school based in the environment and Lakhota tradition on Standing Rock.

This project is a complete overhaul of the Russell Springs library. They will update the collection to make sure students have access to accurate nonfiction, popular book series, recently released picture and chapter books, and graphic novels.

As Saint Benedict Catholic School enters their second century of service, their library will get a much needed update to all sections. They will refresh fiction and nonfiction sections, preparing the school for the next 100 years.

This project will provide new and relevant biography, autobiography, and memoir books that serve, reflect and amplify the voices that identify with our diverse student body. Titles will reflect their ethnicity, gender, disabilities, reading level, reading style, and languages.

This project will update the Historical and Geographical sections of the library with the addition of the engaging series “”You Choose”” History books. This will increase the collection of history books by more than a third and enable the Sharon Elementary library to weed out old text books and outdated resources.

High/Low books and many graphic novels will make reading more accessible and enjoyable to the students at Visitation Catholic School. This project will give students an opportunity to pursue high interest books and empower them to read independently.

This project is focused on providing books for students at their reading level and appropriate age. The outdated collection will receive a much needed update in nonfiction, graphic novels, and other books that can help bridge the gap for struggling readers between picture books and chapter books.

This project will create a much needed Graphic Novel section at West Utica Elementary. They will add popular series like Dog-Man and The Babysitters Club, newer graphic series such as Wings of Fire and Amulet, nonfiction stories like March which is about the American Civil Rights Movement, and historically classic plays by Shakespeare.

This project will provide a small library of high-interest paperback books to incarcerated youth. The aim is to encourage a passion for reading, develop inquiring minds, improve student success in school, and expand student knowledge with real-world reading materials.