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

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Help Fill Up Our Library

Help me give my students these new books to replenish our empty library.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Costa's classroom raised $297

This project is fully funded

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

My students are quite extraordinary! This year I'm working exceptionally hard with an ICT class split into two separate classrooms. Yes... you heard that right... I'm teaching fourth grade in two separate classrooms. My students are learning how to cope in these crazy times and doing a phenomenal job at it! Even though we are all not together this year, it's great to get to see everyone online. My students are really lovely kids—hardworking, funny, and bright. They live in a disadvantaged community, where resources are scarce and teachers have to work really hard to acquire supplies and plan enrichment activities.

My students do their best to comply with all that we require of them, which means a large amount of test prep and a small amount of recess.

As their teacher, I owe it to them to try to bring fun and creativity to our school year to the best of my ability. Many of my students have special needs, ranging from learning differences to emotional disturbances, and it's important to me to make learning fun and enjoyable for them.

My Project

Please help me replenish my classroom library. When the pandemic hit, I let many of my students take books home with them. As a fifth grade teacher, all of my students graduated and moved up to middle school and were not able to return the books. As a result, my classroom library has been much depleted.

Research shows that effective classroom libraries contain upwards of a thousand books.

Through my years of teaching I found it very important to include a wide variety of books that my students like to read. I surveyed my students, and these books are the ones that students requested the most.

Mr. Costa PS 16 Leonard Dunkly Grades 3-5

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

30 students impacted 3donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Magic Tree House Books 28 original collection box set • Amazon Business $72.00 1 $72.00
Trapped in a Video Game: The Complete Series • Amazon Business $31.77 1 $31.77
Who Was Thomas Jefferson? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
What Were the Salem Witch Trials? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Rosa Parks? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
What Was the Boston Tea Party? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
What Was the Great Depression? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
What Was the Vietnam War? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
What Is NASA? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
What Was Ellis Island? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was George Washington? • Amazon Business $5.79 1 $5.79
What Is the Constitution? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $5.68 1 $5.68
Who Was Ben Franklin? • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Who Was Kobe Bryant? (Who HQ NOW) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
What Was the Age of the Dinosaurs? • Amazon Business $4.00 1 $4.00
Where Is the Amazon? • Amazon Business $4.00 1 $4.00
What Were the Twin Towers? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $4.00 1 $4.00
What Was the Great Chicago Fire? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
What Was the Berlin Wall? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
What Was the Holocaust? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Where Is the Great Barrier Reef? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Neil Armstrong? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
What Is the Declaration of Independence? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $3.83 1 $3.83
Who Is Michael Jordan? (Who Was?) • Amazon Business $3.49 1 $3.49

Materials cost

$218.40

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.28

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$251.68

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$44.41

Total project goal

$296.09

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $296.09

2 Donors

-$272.56

Donations toward project cost

-$234.68

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.88

match offer

-$20.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$17.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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 $0.00

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