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Ms. Navarro from Los Angeles, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Navarro's classroom raised $551

Most Popular Reads, Fly off the Shelves!

My students need high interest books in their classroom library for our reading projects and literary book talks.

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Ms. Navarro Hollenbeck Middle School
Los Angeles, CA Grades 6-8

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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

Most of my students have yet to read a book from cover to cover. Then, when they finally decide on a book (the really popular ones) the library catalog reads "checked-out." They try again at their local library only to find that the book has gone "missing." What now?

My students are struggling/emerging readers of English.

They need all the high interest books the can read in order to develop good reading and writing habits. However, they attend a California inner-city school classified as Title 1; our students face socio-economic disadvantages that put them at risk for underachievement and emotional distress. Their neighborhoods are plagued by a high crime, poverty, drugs, violence and low test scores. Their interest interest in reading may become obscured because of outside factors, so they need books that will keep them motivated and excited. Often time, the resources at our schools are scarce; this year, in addition to not having many titles, we are faced with not having the funding for a school librarian, limited their access to books.

My Project

This being said, they and their families have limited access to educational resources and model for success. Yet, a great number of our students have the resiliency and the great potential to excel in academia given they are granted an equitable opportunity to value education. The students' resiliency feeds off the books they read, where they find refuge to their struggles in life. These books are a collection of titles my students came up with in a survey about "Books That Changed My Mind About Reading." These books will be used to begin a reading campaign in my classes, to encourage students to write book reviews by students and for students, to recommend a good read. They will learn and share a great appreciation for literature; and become better readers along the way!

We are hoping to become the model for a potential school-wide campaign to encourage active reading, but more importantly active discussion and sharing about our good reads.

Funding this project will directly impact the reading, writing, listening and speaking skills of more than 70 students in my English Language arts course, alone! When we share our findings and our knowledge of these books through our student presentations and classroom book talks, we hope to impact many more students.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

120 students impacted 23 donors
Ms. Navarro Hollenbeck Middle School Grades 6-8

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Los Angeles, CA View local requests

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

120 students impacted 23donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Maus I : A Survivor''s Tale My Father Bleeds History • AKJ Books $11.80 1 $11.80
The Absolutely True Diary Of A Parttime Indian • AKJ Books $8.87 1 $8.87
18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe • AKJ Books $5.17 1 $5.17
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box of Books (1-5) [Paperback] • AKJ Books $51.80 1 $51.80
The Color Purple (Mass Market Musical Tie In) • AKJ Books $6.62 1 $6.62
Go Ask Alice • AKJ Books $7.39 2 $14.78
Best for Boys - 6 - 8 • AKJ Books $59.72 1 $59.72
Best for Girls - 6 - 8 • AKJ Books $56.55 1 $56.55
S.E. Hinton • AKJ Books $52.50 1 $52.50
NEW! Favorite, Not to Miss Graphic Novels • AKJ Books $59.10 1 $59.10
Roald Dahl • AKJ Books $43.61 1 $43.61
The Giver (Audio CD) • AKJ Books $20.72 1 $20.72

Materials cost

$391.24

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $35.80

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$467.91

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$82.57

Total project goal

$550.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $550.48

19 Donors

-$275.23

Donations toward project cost

-$233.95

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.28

match offer

-$275.25

Match offer toward project cost

-$233.96

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.29

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 $0.00

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