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Ms. Carrie McClean from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Beautiful Books for Beautiful Children

Help me give my students beautiful and rich books to kick off the year!

  • $444 goal

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My Students

My school was originally created by a group of parents unhappy with the public school options in their neighborhood. We strive to maintain a racial, ethnic, and economic mix because we believe that integration and equal access benefit everyone. It is now part of a diversity pilot project in NYC and remains committed to making progressive education accessible to all.

This year, I will be teaching first grade for the first time.

My 24 first-graders are a unique cohort because many of them have not been in a school building for the last year and a half. They will be learning the ABCs at the same time they are learning how to be in school. All the kids returning to classrooms this fall will present with a wide range of developmental needs, and I want my classroom to be flexible enough to meet them where they're at!

My Project

As we think about discussing big ideas with little people, we consider age-appropriate language so that our students or children can grasp the concepts we’re introducing and incorporate these ideas and language into their own thinking and conversation. These beautiful books will help engage our first graders in these big ideas in language they can understand. This project is a mix of books that align with the guiding principles of the Black Lives Matter Movement as well as rich books that will promote a healthy reading life. A diverse and inclusive library where children see themselves represented is so very important in any classroom.

Ms. Carrie McClean The Brooklyn New School at PS 146 Grades 3-5

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More than a third 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
It's a Busload of Pigeon Books! (NEW ISBN) • Amazon Business $22.49 1 $22.49
A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt: (Spring Books for Kids, Gardening for Kids, Preschool Science Books, Children's Nature Books) • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
The Magical Yet • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Bodies Are Cool • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Alma and How She Got Her Name • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Amos & Boris • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Julián at the Wedding • Amazon Business $14.29 1 $14.29
Your Name Is a Song • Amazon Business $14.14 1 $14.14
Germs vs. Soap • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
It's Okay To Be Different • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Black Is a Rainbow Color • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
If You Plant a Seed • Amazon Business $12.69 1 $12.69
I Am Enough • Amazon Business $12.45 1 $12.45
You Matter • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
The Day You Begin • Amazon Business $12.01 1 $12.01
Be You! • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
The Invisible Boy • Amazon Business $10.59 1 $10.59
Chrysanthemum • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Good Egg • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
All Are Welcome • Amazon Business $9.58 1 $9.58
Big Feelings • Amazon Business $9.13 1 $9.13
I Am Human: A Book of Empathy (I Am Books) • Amazon Business $8.74 1 $8.74
And Tango Makes Three (Classic Board Books) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Bad Seed • Amazon Business $6.81 1 $6.81

Materials cost

$341.53

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.12

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$376.65

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$66.47

Total project goal

$443.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $443.12

1 Donor

-$221.56

Donations toward project cost

-$188.33

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.23

match offer

-$221.55

Match offer toward project cost

-$188.32

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.23

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 $0.00

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