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Mrs. Johnson from Philadelphia, PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Read Baby Read!

Help me give my students ample opportunity and exposure to books in order to foster a love for reading!

  • $960 goal

This project expired on July 5, 2024.

This project expired on July 5, 2024.

My Project

It’s undeniable that a child’s reading skills are important to their success in school, work, and life in general. Books are interactive; they demand that kids think. Fiction and nonfiction books widen our consciousness. They give us new ways to think and new ideas. They expand our universe beyond time and place and inspire our own original thoughts.

This project will give kids various options of books to read with characters that look like them and story lines that they can relate to as well.

My students are excited to have a school library. As a middle school in an urban area, libraries aren't always accessible. Creating this school library will allow kids to check out books and start the love of reading journey.

Mrs. Johnson Young Scholars Charter Middle School 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.

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Philadelphia, PA View local requests

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

100 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lakeshore Neon Connect & Store Book Bins - Set of 6 Colors • Lakeshore Learning Materials $44.99 1 $44.99
3 Book Set - Graphic Novels: New Kid, Class Act, School Trip (paperback graphic novels) • MahoganyBooks $36.87 1 $36.87
The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $26.10 1 $26.10
Christopher Paul Curtis 3 Book Boxed Set (paperback book set) • MahoganyBooks $23.37 1 $23.37
Black Brother, Black Brother (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 3 $21.57
Gaither Sisters Trilogy Box Set (paperback book set) • MahoganyBooks $21.57 1 $21.57
A Kids Book About Empathy - social emotional learning collection (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Blackout (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.99 1 $17.99
Punching the Air (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.99 1 $17.99
I Am Enough (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.10 1 $17.10
We Are All So Good at Smiling (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Dear Justyce (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Cool. Awkward. Black. (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Justice Rising: 12 Amazing Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Clap When You Land (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Hair Love (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
I Am Every Good Thing (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
I Am Smart, I Am Blessed, I Can Do Anything! (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Black is a Rainbow Color (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Fast Pitch (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
The Poet X (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
Black Boy Joy (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $15.29 1 $15.29
Homegoing (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $15.26 1 $15.26
This is Your Time (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $14.39 1 $14.39
A Little Book About Culture (board book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $13.00 1 $13.00
The Story of Selena Quintanilla (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
Dear Martin (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $11.69 1 $11.69
One Love: Based on the Song 'One Love' by Bob Marley (board book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls Rights (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
A Long Walk to Water (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Odd One Out (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $9.89 1 $9.89
The Invisible String - social emotional learning picture book (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $9.00 1 $9.00
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.99 1 $8.99
The Voting Booth (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.99 1 $8.99
Something to Say (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.99 1 $8.99
Concrete Kids (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Max and the Tag-Along Moon (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Life in Motion: Unlikely Ballerina Young Readers Edition (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Whistle for Willie (board book) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Patina (Track #2) (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Ghost Boys (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Clean Getaway (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Ghost (Track #1) (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Sunny (Track #3) (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
The Only Black Girls in Town (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: The Sea of Monsters • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $4.46 1 $4.46

Materials cost

$711.89

Vendor shipping charges

 $63.36

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.68

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$815.93

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$143.99

Total project goal

$959.92

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