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Ms. Solarek from Seattle, WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Diverse Character that Represent our Readers!

Help me give my students books filled with lots of diverse characters so that they can see themselves and their cultures in our libraries!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Solarek's classroom raised $582

This project is fully funded

My Students

Our school is filled with incredible students who love to come to school every day! They are such happy individuals with so much empathy and curiosity! The staff at our school learns as much from the students as the students do from us about life and the world.

My students bring many different cultures from around the world into our classroom every day, creating a rich and deep learning learning environment.

It is an amazing environment to teach about diversity because it is so evident. I am truly indebted to my students for all they teach me about life and their culture.

My Project

These books are filled with lots and lots of diverse characters that represent are students cultures. We want our students to see themselves in our libraries when they are book shopping and be motivated to read about these characters.

At this time of the year in first grade, students are getting in to characters series books and all of these books selected have multiple books on the same characters.

We will use these books in book clubs during reading to gain knowledge about traits, lessons and theme.

These books will be used across our first grade classrooms and hopefully loved and read by all students

Ms. Solarek Olympic Hills Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Seattle, WA View local requests

More than 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Puppy Mudge Collector's Set: Puppy Mudge Finds a Friend; Puppy Mudge Has a Snack; Puppy Mudge Loves His Blanket; Puppy Mudge Takes a Bath; Puppy Mudge Wants to Play; Henry and Mudge: The First Book • Amazon Business $12.62 3 $37.86
Katie Woo Collection • Amazon Business $8.18 2 $16.36
Pete the Cat's Trip to the Supermarket (I Can Read Level 1) • Amazon Business $7.44 2 $14.88
Pets at the Party: A Pet Club Story • Amazon Business $6.25 2 $12.50
The Best Trick: A Pet Club Story • Amazon Business $6.25 2 $12.50
The Cat Food Mystery: A Pet Club Story • Amazon Business $6.25 2 $12.50
Katie's Lucky Birthday (Katie Woo) • Amazon Business $5.95 2 $11.90
The Marigold Mess (Sofia Martinez) • Amazon Business $5.95 2 $11.90
Abuela's Birthday (Sofia Martinez) • Amazon Business $5.95 2 $11.90
Keep Dancing, Katie (Katie Woo) • Amazon Business $5.95 2 $11.90
Pedro's Mystery Club • Amazon Business $5.95 2 $11.90
No More Teasing (Katie Woo) • Amazon Business $5.95 2 $11.90
Pedro's Tricky Tower • Amazon Business $5.95 2 $11.90
Pete the Cat: Snow Daze (My First I Can Read) • Amazon Business $4.99 2 $9.98
Katie Woo Loves School • Amazon Business $4.95 2 $9.90
Katie Woo Tries Something New • Amazon Business $4.95 2 $9.90
My Vida Loca (Sofia Martinez) • Amazon Business $4.95 2 $9.90
Pedro, First-Class Friend • Amazon Business $4.95 2 $9.90
Pedro's Big Break • Amazon Business $4.95 2 $9.90
The Big Stink (Pedro) • Amazon Business $4.95 2 $9.90
Pedro, First-Grade Hero • Amazon Business $4.95 2 $9.90
Katie Woo Rules the School • Amazon Business $4.95 2 $9.90
Pedro's Monster • Amazon Business $4.09 2 $8.18
Pete the Cat: Sir Pete the Brave (My First I Can Read) • Amazon Business $3.99 2 $7.98
Pete the Cat: Pete's Big Lunch (My First I Can Read) • Amazon Business $3.99 2 $7.98
Pete the Cat's Train Trip (My First I Can Read) • Amazon Business $3.99 2 $7.98
Katie Blows Her Top (Katie Woo) • Amazon Business $3.95 2 $7.90
Pete the Cat and the Cool Caterpillar (I Can Read Level 1) • Amazon Business $3.89 2 $7.78
Pete the Cat and the Lost Tooth (My First I Can Read) • Amazon Business $3.74 2 $7.48
Pete the Cat Goes Camping (I Can Read Level 1) • Amazon Business $3.73 2 $7.46
My Family Adventure (Sofia Martinez) • Amazon Business $2.29 3 $6.87
Pete the Cat and the Surprise Teacher (My First I Can Read) • Amazon Business $3.29 2 $6.58
The Lucky Charm: A Pet Club Story • Amazon Business $6.25 1 $6.25
The Pet Wash: A Pet Club Story • Amazon Business $6.25 1 $6.25
The Noisy Night: A Pet Club Story • Amazon Business $6.25 1 $6.25
The Secret Recipe (Sofia Martinez) • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95
Pedro the Ninja • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95
Pedro and the Shark • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95
Pedro's Big Goal • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95
The Beach Trip (Sofia Martinez) • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95
The Big Lie (Katie Woo) • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95
Pete the Cat's Groovy Bake Sale (My First I Can Read) • Amazon Business $2.49 2 $4.98

Materials cost

$414.70

Vendor shipping charges

$7.48

Sales tax

$36.29

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.22

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$494.69

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$87.30

Total project goal

$581.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$581.99

3 Donors

-$272.10

Donations toward project cost

-$254.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.25

match offer

-$282.16

Match offer toward project cost

-$239.84

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$42.32

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$27.72

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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