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

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Books That Build a Better World

Help me give my students windows into the lives of others and mirrors of themselves in the books they read.

  • $775 goal

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My Students

I want to support engagement in my special education classroom so that my students love to learn more than ever and can acquire the skills they need to achieve their wildest dreams!

My students are thoughtful and curious 4th graders.

I work with a variety of students with disabilities and each child has unique learning needs. No matter their current skill level, however, each child comes to my classroom ready to learn. I can see their eager desire to learn as they strive to engage with material and seek hands-on opportunities to do so. In our school, I am lucky to work together with my wonderful co-teacher and paraprofessionals to ensure that every student is receiving the best supports they can, across environments. We truly have a community of learners from staff to students, and we are looking forward to having more resources to increase our success and meet our goals!

My Project

These books will enhance our classroom library so that it reflects the world around us and our very own classroom community. Many of the books in my classroom library are old and the content is outdated. I want to bring literature that is engaging to my curious and aware students.

By having these books in my classroom, the world will be at the fingertips of my students.

They will be transported by their imagination when they read these fictional tales, drawn into our present by the information on the pages they turn, and driven by empathy for the characters both real and created.

Ms. Emily PS 372 The Children's School Grades 3-5

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Brooklyn, NY View local requests

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

25 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
When Stars Are Scattered • AKJ Education $15.32 2 $30.64
Pet • AKJ Education $13.13 2 $26.26
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky • AKJ Education $13.13 2 $26.26
Look Both Ways • AKJ Education $13.13 2 $26.26
Juana and Lucas • AKJ Education $10.94 2 $21.88
March: Book One • AKJ Education $10.91 2 $21.82
New Kid • AKJ Education $9.48 2 $18.96
El Deafo • AKJ Education $9.48 2 $18.96
Let Me Play The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America • AKJ Education $18.24 1 $18.24
March 3 • AKJ Education $17.99 1 $17.99
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
Dream Builder • AKJ Education $14.56 1 $14.56
Sit-In • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Harvesting Hope • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Every Body Looking • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Fish in a Tree • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Red Pencil • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Genesis Begins Again • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition • AKJ Education $6.56 2 $13.12
The Dreamer • AKJ Education $6.56 2 $13.12
Finding Langston • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
The Season of Styx Malone • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse • AKJ Education $12.37 1 $12.37
The Mighty Miss Malone • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
Kamala Harris • AKJ Education $11.15 1 $11.15
Wonder • AKJ Education $9.73 1 $9.73
The Crossover • AKJ Education $8.45 1 $8.45
The Truths We Hold • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Drama • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Just Mercy • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Ball Don't Lie • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Stella by Starlight • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
The Story of Environmentalist Wangari Maathai • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
Out of My Mind • AKJ Education $6.99 1 $6.99
Tangerine • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Red Pencil • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Island Treasures Growing Up in Cuba • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Inside Out and Back Again • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
Crossing the Wire • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
A Good Kind of Trouble • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Tar Beach • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Dear Benjamin Banneker • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Last Summer with Maizon • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
A Boy Called Slow • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Dancing Home • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Rules • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Becoming Naomi Leon • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Sylvia & Aki • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Goodbye, Vietnam • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10

Materials cost

$613.08

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.20

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$658.28

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$116.17

Total project goal

$774.45

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $774.45

1 Donor

-$329.14

Donations toward project cost

-$329.14

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$387.22

Match offer toward project cost

-$329.14

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.08

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$58.08

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 $0.00

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