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Ms. Mapes from New York, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building Kids' Home Libraries: Part 2

Help me give my students fantastic books to read! They love so many series that are stuck in our classroom, and they would appreciate enjoying these collections in their homes!

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

I teach 19 wonderful, brilliant, empathetic second graders at a Title I school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. They are energetic, funny, curious, and we miss being together so much!

My students have been incredibly flexible with this change, their grace and kindness through it all have been amazing.

This project is one of many efforts to continue building on all the learning kids are doing at home and to keep our community tied together through literature.

My Project

Students have been connecting to literature and each other in incredibly creative ways. They have access to online book sites, they engage enthusiastically in our community meetings, and they take in texts all around them - the news, peers' messages, letters, and books at home.

They miss so much about school, especially our classroom library!

They would love to have more books at home, especially series. With more books at home, kids would get a break from screens, they'd be able to read more often and independently, and they could share what they've loved with their classmates.

Ms. Mapes PS 142 Amalia Castro Grades PreK-2

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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Nearly all 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

19 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Marisol McDonald and the Monster: Marisol McDonald y El Monstruo (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $13.93 2 $27.86
Marisol McDonald and the Clash Bash: Marisol McDonald y la fiesta sin igual (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $13.88 2 $27.76
The Most Magnificent Thing • Amazon Business $11.69 2 $23.38
Everywhere, Wonder • Amazon Business $17.69 1 $17.69
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist • Amazon Business $15.94 1 $15.94
Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos (1) • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Over and Under the Pond: (Environment and Ecology Books for Kids, Nature Books, Children's Oceanography Books, Animal Books for Kids) • Amazon Business $13.19 1 $13.19
The Thing Lou Couldn't Do • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Waiting for the Biblioburro/Esperando el Biblioburro: (Spanish-English bilingual edition) • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
Malala's Magic Pencil • Amazon Business $12.77 1 $12.77
There Might Be Lobsters • Amazon Business $12.19 1 $12.19
Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines • Amazon Business $11.95 1 $11.95
Yasmin the Gardener • Amazon Business $5.95 2 $11.90
Yasmin the Friend • Amazon Business $5.95 2 $11.90
Meet Yasmin! • Amazon Business $5.95 2 $11.90
Yasmin the Explorer • Amazon Business $5.95 2 $11.90
You Can Do It, Yasmin! • Amazon Business $5.95 2 $11.90
Yasmin the Writer • Amazon Business $5.95 2 $11.90
Let the Children March • Amazon Business $11.86 1 $11.86
Mae Among the Stars • Amazon Business $11.59 1 $11.59
My Name Is Gabriela/Me llamo Gabriela (Rise and Shine) (English, Multilingual and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $11.54 1 $11.54
Yasmin the Chef • Amazon Business $5.69 2 $11.38
Yasmin the Painter • Amazon Business $5.49 2 $10.98
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books) • Amazon Business $10.69 1 $10.69
Yasmin the Fashionista • Amazon Business $4.99 2 $9.98
Jabari Jumps • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Yasmin in Charge • Amazon Business $3.99 2 $7.98
A Flicker of Hope • Amazon Business $7.89 1 $7.89
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt: (Nature Book for Kids, Gardening and Vegetable Planting, Outdoor Nature Book) • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79

Materials cost

$395.26

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.93

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$431.19

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.09

Total project goal

$507.28

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $507.28

6 Donors

-$248.79

Donations toward project cost

-$219.72

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.07

match offer

-$248.79

Match offer toward project cost

-$211.47

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.32

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$9.70

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 $0.00

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