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Ms. Watkins from Topanga, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books About POC

Help me give my students books about race, managing anger, and books that discuss life's hardest topics, plus a rainbow fidget slug.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Watkins's classroom raised $1,456

This project is fully funded

My Project

I’m building up a 1st grade classroom. I’m lacking in books and many other supplies. I’m setting up a checkout system so kids can take books home to read with their parents. Since this is their first year in a real classroom, due to covid, many of them are well below reading level. These students are gentle and eager to learn, and I need books to put in their hands.

Some of the books are about regulating anger and feelings, since this is their first time in such a busy social situation.

Thank you for your support!

Ms. Watkins Topanga Elementary Charter School Grades PreK-2 Topanga, CA View local requests 16 students impacted 8donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
8 Book Set: A Little SPOT of Emotion Box Set (Anger, Anxiety, Peaceful, Happiness, Sadness, Confidence, Love, & Scribble Emotion) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $48.00 1 $48.00
8 Book Set: A Little SPOT Takes Action! Box Set (8 Books: Kindness, Responsibility, Patience, Respect, Honesty, Organization, Diversity, & Safety) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $48.00 1 $48.00
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $26.00 1 $26.00
Beautiful Curly Me Signed by Author • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $25.00 1 $25.00
Little People BIG DREAMS Black Voices Set • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $24.00 1 $24.00
New Kid and Class Act: The Box Set • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $23.00 1 $23.00
A Kids Book About Suicide • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
A Kids Book About Anxiety • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
The Magical Yet • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
A Kids Book About School Shootings • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Adapted for Young People) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Drawn Together • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
A Kids Book About Gratitude • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
The Year We Learned to Fly • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
A Kids Book About Money • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
A Kids Book About Being Inclusive • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
A Kids Book About Immigration • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
Long Way Down The Graphic Novel • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
Timelines from Black History Leaders Legends Legacies • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
Stacey's Extraordinary Words • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
How to Fold a Taco • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
Calvin • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
A Place Inside of Me A Poem to Heal the Heart • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
Fidget Slug - 3D Rainbow Color Sensory Toy • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
Jabari Tries • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $17.00 1 $17.00
Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $17.00 1 $17.00
The Proudest Blue A Story of Hijab and Family • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $17.00 1 $17.00
Dreamers • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
When You Trap a Tiger • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
Milo Imagines the World • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
We Are Water Protectors • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
American Born Chinese • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
A Little Book About Justice • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
A Little Book About Culture • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
Something Happened in Our Town A Childs Story About Racial Injustice • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
Fry Bread A Native American Family Story • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
A Little Book About Racism • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
A Different Pond • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $14.00 1 $14.00
Just Help!: How to Build a Better World • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $14.00 1 $14.00
Last Stop on Market Street • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $13.00 1 $13.00
Furia • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $13.00 1 $13.00
Firekeepers Daughter • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $13.00 1 $13.00
Our Class is a Family • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $13.00 1 $13.00
The Poet X • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $13.00 1 $13.00
Change Sings • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
Wonder • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
Raven A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
This Book Is Anti Racist • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
Islandborn • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
Black Inventors 15 Inventions that Changed the World • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
Round Is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
This Book is Anti Racist Journal • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Native Americans in History A History Book for Kids • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Brown Girl Dreaming • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
The ABCs of Black History • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Vamanos Series Oaxaca • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Vamanos Series Tegucigalpa • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Pink Is for Boys • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
The Rough Face Girl • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $9.00 1 $9.00
The Name Jar • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $9.00 1 $9.00
The Invisible String • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $9.00 1 $9.00
The House on Mango Street • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $9.00 1 $9.00
Teni and Tayo Legendary African Queens Coloring Book • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $9.00 1 $9.00
Flying Lessons and Other Stories • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $8.00 1 $8.00
Finding Langston • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $8.00 1 $8.00
Soft Rain A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $8.00 1 $8.00
Island of the Blue Dolphins • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $8.00 1 $8.00
Esperanza Rising • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $8.00 1 $8.00
Feyi Fay and the Case of the Mysterious Madam Koi Koi Volume 1 • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $7.00 1 $7.00
Equally Wonderful Anti Racism Coloring Book • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $7.00 1 $7.00
A Bad Case of Stripes • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $7.00 1 $7.00

Materials cost

$1,184.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $5.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$17.76

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,236.76

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$218.25

Total project goal

$1,455.01

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,455.01

6 Donors

-$1,280.01

Donations toward project cost

-$1,088.01

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$192.00

Matching donations from our partners

-$175.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$148.75

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.25

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