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

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Reading Rainbow: Just Like Me!

Help me give my students literature that reflects them and their families, and that they can eagerly consume!

  • $468 goal

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My Project

My students love reading! They are hungry for engaging literature and spend almost all their free time with their face in a book. In order to keep up with their thirst for knowledge, your donation will only not allow them to consume new and exciting books but help them make a personal connection by reading books about people just like them!

Books that children can see themselves in are the key to empowerment.

It helps them to expand on their goals and understand that anything is possible. I believe your donation will really help to further transform my students.

Ms. Ralph PS 889 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

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. Ralph

Brooklyn, NY View local requests

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

21 students impacted 12donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
How My Family Lives in America • AKJ Education $6.56 2 $13.12
Drones • AKJ Education $6.53 2 $13.06
Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs! • AKJ Education $5.10 2 $10.20
What Are Community Services? • AKJ Education $9.42 1 $9.42
I Can Start a Business! • AKJ Education $8.58 1 $8.58
Follow the Money! • AKJ Education $8.09 1 $8.09
Electromagnetism • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Extreme Weather • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Adaptation and Survival • AKJ Education $7.67 1 $7.67
Could an Asteroid Harm Earth? • AKJ Education $7.67 1 $7.67
The White House • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
The Energy We See • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Yellowstone National Park • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Postcards from Pluto • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The ABCs of Continents • AKJ Education $6.53 1 $6.53
Wave Pools • AKJ Education $6.53 1 $6.53
Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
The Little Rock Nine and the Fight for Equal Education • AKJ Education $5.95 1 $5.95
Frogs • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
How Did That Get in My Lunchbox? • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
How a Book Is Made • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Earthquakes • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Surprising Sharks • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew? • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Too Hot? Too Cold? • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Insults Aren't Funny • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Rocks, Fossils and Arrowheads • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Who Invented Basketball? • AKJ Education $5.47 1 $5.47
Babe Ruth and the Baseball Curse (Totally True Adventures) • AKJ Education $5.39 1 $5.39
Building Big Bridges • AKJ Education $5.11 1 $5.11
Arctic or Antarctic? • AKJ Education $5.11 1 $5.11
I Wonder Why Countries Fly Flags • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Louis Braille • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Secret Soldier • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
I Wonder Why Zippers Have Teeth and other questions about inventions • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
I Wonder Why the Sun Rises • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
What's The Big Idea, Ben Franklin? • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Story Of Ruby Bridges: Special Anniversary Edition (Common Core Exemplar) • AKJ Education $4.89 1 $4.89
Monster Bugs • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
The True Story of Pocahontas • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
Volcanoes! • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
Freak Out! • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
Who Was Leonardo da Vinci? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Anne Frank? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Is There Life in Outer Space? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Ant Cities • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Let's Go Rock Collecting • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was John F. Kennedy? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Louis Armstrong? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Hungry Plants • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Pompeii...Buried Alive! • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Wild Cats • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Space: Planets, Moons, Stars, and More! • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Moonwalk • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Helen Keller • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Escape North! • AKJ Education $3.49 1 $3.49
Jackie Robinson and the Story of All Black Baseball • AKJ Education $3.49 1 $3.49

Materials cost

$355.76

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.34

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$397.10

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$70.08

Total project goal

$467.18

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $467.18

10 Donors

-$455.41

Donations toward project cost

-$388.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$66.81

match offer

-$10.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$8.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.77

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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