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

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More Books For Book Clubs!

My students need these 42 new books to provide challenging, interesting and insightful literature for our upcoming book clubs.

  • $443 goal

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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

My students are very motivated scholars, but up until now we haven't always had the resources necessary. Books are difficult to come by in the new budget, let alone books that relate to our school's theme of environmental engineering.

My students attend a magnet school for environmental engineering.

Although we have an amazing robotics program, and access to a tremendous amount of technology, sadly the purchase of engaging classroom library books is sometimes somewhat overlooked. My students are curious to read more about innovators, scientists and individuals who have changed our world. They want to read about scientists that they can look up to and model themselves after and they want to read about challenges that people before them faced, and examine how they overcame those challenges.

My Project

Luckily, my students are extremely motivated. Now it is my job to get them the resources they need to be successful. My students are going to engage in a series of book clubs centered around selecting and reading about inspiring innovators. They are going to examine these individuals and their contributions to society. Then they are going to have to formulate a plan for how they are going to contribute to society.

The books that you will help purchase include books that relate to science and inventors.

They include biographies and poetry centered around people who have made major contributions to society. And to be honest, they are engaging reads for hesitant readers. Thank you for your support! It will greatly help each of my students towards reaching their goals of reading a minimum of 30 books this year!

Mrs. Grate John Ericsson Middle School 126 Env Engineering Grades 6-8

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.

More about Mrs. Grate

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

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson • AKJ Books $16.05 1 $16.05
Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems • AKJ Books $13.95 1 $13.95
The 6 Most Important Decisions You''ll Ever Make: A Guide For Teens • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
The Rose That Grew From Concrete • AKJ Books $11.68 1 $11.68
Rocket Boys • AKJ Books $11.68 1 $11.68
They Broke the Law, You Be the Judge: True Stories of Teen C • AKJ Books $11.67 1 $11.67
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens Personal Workbook • AKJ Books $11.67 1 $11.67
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transfor • AKJ Books $11.64 1 $11.64
My Stroke of Insight • AKJ Books $10.95 1 $10.95
Radioactive Boyscout • AKJ Books $10.95 1 $10.95
Kids Are All Right • AKJ Books $10.95 1 $10.95
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India M • AKJ Books $10.95 1 $10.95
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electri • AKJ Books $10.94 1 $10.94
The Struggle to Be Strong • AKJ Books $10.94 1 $10.94
Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam Tony Medina, Louis Reyes • AKJ Books $10.91 1 $10.91
Falling Leaves • AKJ Books $10.91 1 $10.91
Geeks • AKJ Books $10.91 1 $10.91
African Silences • AKJ Books $9.49 1 $9.49
Hawking and Black Holes • AKJ Books $8.76 1 $8.76
Dear Bully • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Some Girls Are • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Three Little Words • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
You Don''t Know Me • AKJ Books $7.29 1 $7.29
Hit Squad James Heneghan • AKJ Books $7.26 1 $7.26
Street Love • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
Because I Am Furniture Thalia Chaltas • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
Handbook for Boys • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
November Blues • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
October Sky • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
Chelsey (Louder Than Words Series) Chelsey Shannon, Deborah • AKJ Books $5.80 1 $5.80
Marni • AKJ Books $5.80 1 $5.80
Albert Einstein (20th Century) • AKJ Books $5.80 1 $5.80
I Am The Darker Brother • AKJ Books $5.10 1 $5.10
You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys • AKJ Books $5.10 1 $5.10
Black Pioneers of Science and Invention • AKJ Books $5.07 1 $5.07
Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? • AKJ Books $4.37 1 $4.37
Don''t You Dare Read This • AKJ Books $4.37 1 $4.37
Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager Beatric • AKJ Books $4.37 1 $4.37
Fat Boy • AKJ Books $4.34 1 $4.34
English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology • AKJ Books $3.29 1 $3.29
100 Best Loved Poems • AKJ Books $1.46 1 $1.46
Bullying in Schools • AKJ Books $1.00 1 $1.00

Materials cost

$341.03

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.12

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$376.15

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$66.38

Total project goal

$442.53

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $442.53

3 Donors

-$112.45

Donations toward project cost

-$103.08

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.37

Matching donations from our partners

-$321.26

Match offers toward project cost

-$273.07

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.19

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

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