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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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Books for Backpacks!

Help me give my students leveled high-interest books to fill their take-home book baggies!

  • $589 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 am teaching first grade to 24 incredible children.

My 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

Thanks to generous donors, our project for decodable readers and phonics games was funded in just days! Now that we have high quality books for kids to practice their phonics skills in school, we now need to update our library of books that go home with our students each evening. These books need to be at the "just right" level for our kids and also a book they WANT to read.

That means we need beginning chapter books, graphic novels, high-interest leveled books, old favorites like Poppleton and new ones like Push Start!

The key to getting kids hooked on reading is to help them find a book or a series that sparks that love of reading and provides the right amount of challenge.

Ms. Carrie McClean The Brooklyn New School at PS 146 Grades PreK-2

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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

24 students impacted 6donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Press Start! - Branches Book Collection Set - ( 6 Books ) • Amazon Business $49.99 1 $49.99
Who Would Win? Series Collection of 8 Books By Jerry Pallotta and Rob Bolster (Includes: Whale Vs. Giant Squid; Tarantula Vs Scorpion; Tyrannosaurus Rex Vs Velociraptor; Komodo Dragon Vs. King Cobra; Lion Vs Tiger;Killer Whale Vs Great White Shark; Hammerhead Vs Bull Shark; Polar Bear Vs Grizzly Bear;) • Amazon Business $44.95 1 $44.95
Narwhal and Jelly Series Books 1 - 4 Collection Set by Ben Clanton (Unicorn of the Sea, Super Narwhal and Jelly Jolt, Peanut Butter and Jelly & Narwhal's Otter Friend) • Amazon Business $33.99 1 $33.99
Amelia Bedelia I Can Read Box Set #2: Books Are a Ball (I Can Read Level 1) • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Splat the Cat: Big Reading Collection (I Can Read Level 1) • Amazon Business $17.00 1 $17.00
The Critter Club Collection: A Purrfect Four-Book Boxed Set: Amy and the Missing Puppy; All About Ellie; Liz Learns a Lesson; Marion Takes a Break • Amazon Business $16.53 1 $16.53
Funny School Stories: Learning to Read Box Set: 5 Fun-Filled Adventures! (I Can Read Level 1) • Amazon Business $16.10 1 $16.10
The Berenstain Bears 12-Book Phonics Fun!: Includes 12 Mini-Books Featuring Short and Long Vowel Sounds (My First I Can Read) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
My Favorite Dog Stories: Learning to Read Box Set (I Can Read Level 1) • Amazon Business $14.90 1 $14.90
The Princess in Black: Three Smashing Adventures: Books 1-3 • Amazon Business $14.62 1 $14.62
The Flat Stanley Collection Box Set: Flat Stanley, Invisible Stanley, Stanley in Space, and Stanley, Flat Again! • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
My Tooth Is Loose! (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) • Amazon Business $4.99 2 $9.98
Star Wars: Jedi Academy • Amazon Business $6.40 1 $6.40
Cheetah Cubs (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
I Am a Super Girl!: An Acorn Book (Princess Truly) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Me and My Robot (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Breakout at the Bug Lab (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
A Magic Spark: An Acorn Book (Fairylight Friends #1) (1) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Please, No More Nuts! (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Pig and Pug (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Fox on the Job: Level 3 (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Fair and Square: An Acorn Book (Unicorn and Yeti #5) (5) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Sparkly New Friends: An Acorn Book (Unicorn and Yeti #1) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
The Great Bunk Bed Battle: An Acorn Book (Fox Tails #1) (1) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
The Very Busy Spider (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Take a Hike!: An Acorn Book (Moby Shinobi and Toby Too! #2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Snug Bug (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Let's Have a Sleepover!: An Acorn Book (Hello, Hedgehog! #2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Jason's Bus Ride (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Fake Out!: Animals That Play Tricks (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Turtle and Snake's Day at the Beach (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
I Can Build It!: An Acorn Book (Princess Truly #3) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Time to Shine: An Acorn Book (Fairylight Friends #2) (2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Pig-Piggy-Pigs (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Kit and Kat (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Poppleton: An Acorn Book • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Poppleton in Fall: An Acorn Book (Poppleton #4) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Poppleton Every Day: An Acorn Book • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Poppleton and Friends: An Acorn Book • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Frog Meets Dog: An Acorn Book (A Frog and Dog Book) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
The Giant Ice Cream Mess: An Acorn Book (Fox Tails #3) (3) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Beneath the Bed and Other Scary Stories: An Acorn Book (Mister Shivers) (1) • Amazon Business $4.85 1 $4.85
Look! I Can Read! (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) • Amazon Business $4.79 1 $4.79
I Want to Be a Doctor (I Can Read Level 1) • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74
Dragon's Fat Cat: An Acorn Book (Dragon #2): An Acorn Book • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74
Hello, Crabby!: An Acorn Book (A Crabby Book #1) (1) • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74
Friends Rock: An Acorn Book (Unicorn and Yeti #3): An Acorn Book • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74
A Friend for Dragon: An Acorn Book (Dragon #1) (1) • Amazon Business $4.24 1 $4.24
Fox and His Friends (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Hedge-Hedgey-Hedgehogs (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$463.46

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$500.41

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.31

Total project goal

$588.72

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $588.72

5 Donors

-$588.72

Donations toward project cost

-$500.41

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$88.31

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