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Mrs. K. from Nashua NH is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Building a Biography Bookshelf

My students need a variety of biographies that will introduce them to important leaders and role models such as I am Jackie Robinson, Nelson Mandela, and Grandfather Gandhi.

  • $410 goal

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My Students

Who was your role model when you were a kid? Maybe it was a family member or a friend. Maybe it was someone you learned about in a book!

I teach at a "high poverty" school, and most of my second graders are encountering and overcoming incredible challenges each and every day.

Many come from unstable homes and some experience food insecurity. They do not all have big dreams for the future or even know what opportunities they could be reaching for.

My Project

Many of my students lack strong role models with whom they can closely identify. Whenever I share books about leaders such as Nelson Mandela or Rosa Parks, my students pay very close attention. They tune in to the challenges that these leaders had to overcome in their own lives, and they often have many questions about the suffering they endured. It is not at all unusual to have students make connections to their own experiences and share their stories. I would like to have a much wider selection of biographies highlighting the lives of incredible people from all over the world both past and present. I want them to be introduced to notable men and women who made great accomplishments as scientists, mathematicians, environmentalists, artists, writers, activists, astronauts, and more. I am requesting a variety of biographies to include On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein, Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, and One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong.

I believe that my students are capable of achieving great things, but they are not always convinced of this.

I want to introduce them to many important causes and to many important people who have made a difference in our world - often overcoming significant challenges in their own lives. The great leaders of our future are sitting in classrooms today! Thank you for considering our project!

Mrs. K.
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $15.27 1 $15.27
On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein • Amazon Business $14.66 1 $14.66
Grandfather Gandhi • Amazon Business $14.41 1 $14.41
The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon (Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12) • Amazon Business $13.45 1 $13.45
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 • Amazon Business $13.37 1 $13.37
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus • Amazon Business $13.17 1 $13.17
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever • Amazon Business $12.90 1 $12.90
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos • Amazon Business $12.90 1 $12.90
I Have a Dream (Book & CD) • Amazon Business $12.70 1 $12.70
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya • Amazon Business $12.69 1 $12.69
Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children • Amazon Business $12.23 1 $12.23
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams • Amazon Business $12.14 1 $12.14
When Harriet Met Sojourner • Amazon Business $11.63 1 $11.63
Nelson Mandela • Amazon Business $11.32 1 $11.32
The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps • Amazon Business $11.32 1 $11.32
Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau • Amazon Business $11.13 1 $11.13
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad • Amazon Business $11.13 1 $11.13
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition) • Amazon Business $10.88 1 $10.88
Malala Yousafzai: Warrior with Words • Amazon Business $10.48 1 $10.48
I am Jackie Robinson (Ordinary People Change World) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
A Picture Book of George Washington Carver (Picture Book Biography) (Picture Book Biographies) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Frida: (Spanish language edition) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $6.80 1 $6.80
A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World • Amazon Business $6.75 1 $6.75
A Picture Book of Jackie Robinson (Picture Book Biography) (Picture Book Biographies) • Amazon Business $6.72 1 $6.72
A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $6.60 1 $6.60
Only Passing Through • Amazon Business $6.51 1 $6.51
One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong • Amazon Business $6.18 1 $6.18
Scholastic Reader Level 3: When I Grow Up: Sally Ride • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$313.05

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$347.75

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$61.37

Total project goal

$409.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$409.12

4 Donors

-$204.55

Donations toward project cost

-$173.87

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.68

match offer

-$204.56

Match offer toward project cost

-$173.88

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.68

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$0.00

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