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

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Bibliotherapy: Helping Students, One Book at a Time

Help me give my students a new book collection focusing on Bibliotherapy to help and heal.

  • $637 goal

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My Students

My school is in downtown Brooklyn. Though the area is beautiful many of my students travel over two hours to get here. This past year we unveiled an absolutely beautiful media library. We were fortunate enough to receive donations from the city but our job is not done yet!

Education is the most powerful weapon with which you can change the world- Nelson Mandela

We would like to continue to build on our library! Our goal is to fill it with books of all genres to help get our students reading again!

My Project

We know from personal experience that books are powerful. Who hasn’t become fully immersed in a novel, empathizing with the characters and gaining new insight into our own lives in the process?

As librarians or teachers, we can harness the power of books to help students deal with behavioral, emotional, and social issues in a practice known as bibliotherapy.

At its most basic level, bibliotherapy involves selecting reading material relevant to the person’s life situation. In the past year and a half, teens have endured a lot of disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Help me introduce a new concept in the library by providing carefully selected reading materials to help and heal.

Ms. Echols Science Skills Center Grades 9-12

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

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Brooklyn, NY View local requests

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

550 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto • Amazon Business $15.99 2 $31.98
Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present • Amazon Business $13.99 2 $27.98
The Simonverse Novels 3-Book Box Set: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, The Upside of Unrequited, and Leah on the Offbeat • Amazon Business $23.92 1 $23.92
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them • Amazon Business $9.99 2 $19.98
Where I Belong • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America • Amazon Business $8.79 2 $17.58
Ain't Burned All the Bright • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Don't Ask Me Where I'm From • Amazon Business $16.79 1 $16.79
Dear Justyce • Amazon Business $15.60 1 $15.60
Towers Falling • Amazon Business $15.53 1 $15.53
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle) • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
Ace of Spades • Amazon Business $15.10 1 $15.10
The Gilded Ones • Amazon Business $14.77 1 $14.77
Blood Like Magic • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
The Taking of Jake Livingston • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Cemetery Boys • Amazon Business $14.30 1 $14.30
Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
A Chorus Rises: A Song Below Water novel • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Paradise on Fire • Amazon Business $13.95 1 $13.95
Gabi, a Girl in Pieces • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
Yes No Maybe So • Amazon Business $12.91 1 $12.91
Clap When You Land • Amazon Business $12.00 1 $12.00
Who Put This Song On? • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Eliza and Her Monsters • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Made You Up • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide • Amazon Business $9.39 1 $9.39
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Thirteen Reasons Why • Amazon Business $8.39 1 $8.39
Black Brother, Black Brother • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Sugar • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Bayou Magic • Amazon Business $7.69 1 $7.69
Song Below Water • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
If You Come Softly • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Ninth Ward • Amazon Business $6.10 1 $6.10
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work (Empower the Future, 1) • Amazon Business $5.46 1 $5.46
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story • Amazon Business $4.59 1 $4.59

Materials cost

$503.60

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.55

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$541.15

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$95.50

Total project goal

$636.65

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $636.65

5 Donors

-$573.01

Donations toward project cost

-$488.26

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$84.75

match offer

-$62.22

Match offer toward project cost

-$52.89

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.33

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.41

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