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

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On Your Mark, Get Set ... Read!

Help me give my students a modern, diversified classroom library to meet their interests and levels.

  • $277 goal

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My Students

Middle schoolers are the best! They are so full of excitement, wonder, and creative ideas. Our sixth graders have this infectious energy that, as I tell them, "gives me life" - and it truly is a joy to watch as they learn.

Our class has become a class full of readers.

Even in this virtual world, our scholars have been reading whole-class novels. We are reading different genres, about different social justice topics, and students are rising to every occasion. Now it's my job to keep this energy and love of reading up!

My Project

Independent reading is an important step in helping students develop their reading skills and reading identities. Reading can spark imagination and creativity, teach students how to analyze and think critically, and engage with the world around them. But in order to encourage authentic engagement, we need books that meet the diverse interests and levels of our students.

With these additions to our library, students will be able to choose and read books that truly interest them and encourage them to want to read!

We'll be able to add some graphic novels, memoirs and informational texts, superhero tales, and realistic fiction that mimics their own lives.

Ms. Pallas Middle School 61 Dr Gladstone H Atwell Grades 6-8

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

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 Ms. Pallas

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

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Forged by Reading: The Power of a Literate Life • Amazon Business $23.74 1 $23.74
The Vanished (Shuri: A Black Panther Novel #2) (2) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Martin McLean, Middle School Queen • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
Ambitious Girl • Amazon Business $13.50 1 $13.50
Ironheart: Riri Williams • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Truly Tyler (Emmie & Friends) • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Oh My Gods! (OMGs) • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Allergic: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Lion: A Long Way Home Young Readers' Edition • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
No Better Friend: Young Readers Edition: A Man, a Dog, and Their Incredible True Story of Friendship and Survival in World War II • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Code Girls: The True Story of the American Women Who Secretly Broke Codes in World War II (Young Readers Edition) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Shuri: Wakanda Forever • Amazon Business $8.69 1 $8.69
More to the Story • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Crossover (Graphic Novel) (The Crossover Series) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
George (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Hair Love • Amazon Business $6.90 1 $6.90

Materials cost

$201.89

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.03

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$234.92

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$41.46

Total project goal

$276.38

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $276.38

4 Donors

-$164.84

Donations toward project cost

-$146.59

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.25

Matching donations from our partners

-$103.92

Match offers toward project cost

-$88.33

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.59

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$7.62

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 $0.00

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