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

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Capturing A Community With Diverse Books

Help me give my students diverse books that will allow them to see themselves as well as an insight to people in the world that are not like them.

  • $733 goal

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Help Ms. Amanda Lawrence

Ms. Amanda Lawrence has another project! Donate to An Organized Classroom is a Learning Environment! to help her classroom.

$148 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

I love that my students are inspirations to me. My students deserve the best teacher and the best education. Looking at my students, I am motivated to give them the best. I have the pleasure of teaching them for an entire year, adding more knowledge to what they already have obtained in their former grades. My students are special because they are little human beings with eager minds and ready to learn all that I have to teach them. Despite the current state of the world, I have students who love school and love to interact. My students are future engineers, doctors, lawyers, political leaders, teachers, preachers, social workers, pilots, dentist, physical therapist, guidance counselors, and the list is endless.

My Project

These books will continue to enhance the conversation about diversity in our school community. My classroom library is a place that my students really enjoy-I read on the carpet to them, they complete work there, they read independently, and they partner read! Every student book that is placed in my library is treated with love and care, and they are thankful for the opportunities to read. The set of diverse books will allow my students to see others and to see themselves and gain understanding of the many different races, cultures, and ethnicity. All of these books have been chosen with my students in mind.

Ms. Amanda Lawrence PS 139 Alexine A Fenty Grades PreK-2

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

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More about Ms. Amanda Lawrence

Brooklyn, NY View local requests

More than half 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

32 students impacted 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
When We Were Alone • Amazon Business $18.95 1 $18.95
Bilal Cooks Daal • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Carter Reads the Newspaper • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
Maggie's Chopsticks • Amazon Business $16.95 1 $16.95
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Our Favorite Day of the Year • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
All Welcome Here • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Under My Hijab • Amazon Business $14.94 1 $14.94
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice • Amazon Business $14.82 1 $14.82
Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations • Amazon Business $14.75 1 $14.75
Be You! • Amazon Business $14.75 1 $14.75
Pink Is for Boys • Amazon Business $14.46 1 $14.46
Each Kindness (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $14.46 1 $14.46
Pancakes to Parathas: Breakfast Around the World • Amazon Business $14.46 1 $14.46
Malala's Magic Pencil • Amazon Business $14.45 1 $14.45
Kitchen Dance • Amazon Business $14.35 1 $14.35
The Sandwich Swap • Amazon Business $13.88 1 $13.88
Lailah's Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story • Amazon Business $13.85 1 $13.85
What Do You Celebrate?: Holidays and Festivals Around the World • Amazon Business $13.83 1 $13.83
A Friend for Henry: (Books About Making Friends, Children's Friendship Books, Autism Awareness Books for Kids) • Amazon Business $13.77 1 $13.77
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Listening with My Heart: A story of kindness and self-compassion • Amazon Business $12.90 1 $12.90
I Can Do Hard Things: Mindful Affirmations for Kids • Amazon Business $12.86 1 $12.86
Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World • Amazon Business $12.79 1 $12.79
Free as a Bird: The Story of Malala • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Going Back To School During Coronavirus • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
Lucy's Mask • Amazon Business $11.29 1 $11.29
Just Read! • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
School Is Different This Year And That's OK! • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
It's OK to be Different: A Children's Picture Book About Diversity and Kindness • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Our Class is a Family • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Juice Box Bully: Empowering Kids to Stand Up for Others • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
When I Was Eight • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Hair Like Mine (1) (Kids Like Mine) • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
The Love Behind the Mask • Amazon Business $9.85 1 $9.85
The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne • Amazon Business $9.39 1 $9.39
Why Did the Whole World Stop?: Talking With Kids About COVID-19 • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Skin Like Mine (2) (Kids Like Mine) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
A Scarf for Keiko • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Those Shoes • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights • Amazon Business $4.05 1 $4.05

Materials cost

$576.37

Vendor shipping charges

$7.98

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.65

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$623.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$109.94

Total project goal

$732.94

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$732.94

9 Donors

-$472.06

Donations toward project cost

-$408.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.31

match offer

-$252.06

Match offer toward project cost

-$214.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.81

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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