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Ms. Zhao from Boston, MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Us to Build a Mini Chinese Book Class Library

Help me give my students Chinese books to help them improve their Mandarin fluency and increase their learning interest.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Zhao's classroom raised $466

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are creative, well-behaved, fun, and filled with potential! They are a diverse group of students and face different challenges in and out of the school. However, they are all performing really great.

My students are all qualified for free breakfast and lunch, but they always come into the class with smiling faces and study really hard to change their lives.

They are mostly second or third generation immigrants as most of us are. I believe they are our future. Please help me to make our future better.

My Project

The students will use these books to help them improve their Mandarin fluency and interest. We are trying to get some popular books with different reading levels to fit all language proficiency levels of the students.

That reading popular books besides textbooks are not only so exciting, but it also increases language proficiency in a fun way!

These books can be used during school time and after school for writing inspiration, reading interest stimulating, and getting to know Chinese culture with authentic materials. Because the books cover many different topics, vary in reading level, all 500 students will benefit!

Ms. Zhao Josiah Quincy Upper School Grades 9-12

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.

Boston, MA 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
Bruce Lee: Mandarin Superstar • Amazon Business $43.91 1 $43.91
American Born Chinese • Amazon Business $23.49 1 $23.49
Crazy! Kwai Boo 25 (Chinese Edition) • Amazon Business $23.00 1 $23.00
Go Go Squid (Chinese Edition) • Amazon Business $21.75 1 $21.75
Once Upon A Time (Souvenir Edition) (Chinese Edition) • Amazon Business $19.87 1 $19.87
The Ordinary World (Popular Edition) (Chinese Edition) • Amazon Business $19.80 1 $19.80
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth (Chinese Edition) • Amazon Business $19.47 1 $19.47
Great Ancient China Projects You Can Build Yourself (Build It Yourself) • Amazon Business $18.31 1 $18.31
PENG's Fun with Chinese Characters for Children: Help Your Child Learn Chinese the Fun Way! • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
Crazy Rich Asians (Chinese Edition) • Amazon Business $15.59 1 $15.59
The Foodie Monsters: A Children's Book About Colors, Food, and Friendship (Bilingual English and Mandarin Vocabulary Edition with Simplified Chinese Characters and Pinyin) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Most Classical 365 Bedtime Stories (Spring) (Chinese Edition) • Amazon Business $13.45 1 $13.45
Fly, Little Bird! - 飞吧,小鸟!: Bilingual Children's Picture Book in English - Chinese with Pics to Color (Chinese Books for Children) • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
Mina's Ups and Downs (Written in Simplified Chinese, English and Pinyin): a bilingual children's book (Mina Learns Chinese (Simplified Chinese)) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Wo Xiao Ma? Am I Small?: Chinese/Mandarin Chinese [simplified]-English: Children's Picture Book (Bilingual Edition) (Chinese and English Edition) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Chinese Legends - Chinese Zodiac, Mid Autumn Festival & Duan Wu Festival (Illustrated) (Translated): Bilingual: English & Simplified Chinese with Pinyin • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Home: Chinese books for children (Bilingual English and Mandarin Chinese vocabulary with pinyin) Dual-language Edition (First Words in Chinese) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
First Words in Chinese: (Bilingual English and Mandarin Chinese books for kids) Dual language Edition (book 1) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
I Like Pickles: (Bilingual English and Mandarin Chinese books for kids) Dual language Edition • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Great Race: Story of the Chinese Zodiac (Simplified Chinese, English, Pinyin) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Conner and the Telescope 康纳和望远镜: Children's Bilingual Picture Book: English, Mandarin Chinese • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Eyewitness Travel Phrase Book Mandarin Chinese (DK Eyewitness Travel Guides Phrase Books) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95

Materials cost

$360.40

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.41

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$395.81

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$69.85

Total project goal

$465.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$465.66

6 Donors

-$451.69

Donations toward project cost

-$385.19

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$66.50

match offer

-$12.50

Match offer toward project cost

-$10.62

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.88

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.47

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$0.00

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