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

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A Touching Read Aloud About Immigration and Hope

Help me give my students an opportunity to read this fantastic beginning of the year, multi-cultural chapter book along with me.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Minas's classroom raised $317

This project is fully funded

My Students

Our school serves students from transitional kindergarten through 5th grade. The student body includes about 450 students altogether. The student body is widely diverse and 55% of students come from low-income families. Our school is a Title l school.

Our class includes 26 fabulous 5th grade learners.

Our classroom setting includes students with different interests, experiences, learning styles and needs.

We strive to create a comfortable school environment in which students look forward to coming each day to develop their academic and social skills.

My Project

Each year in 5th grade we begin with the read aloud chapter book Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate. This is a touching story about the struggle of a boy named Kek from Africa who has immigrated to Minnesota. He's fled from Civil War in his home country and struggles to make sense of not only what happened to his home and family but in this new, unfamiliar place.

A class set of this stunning chapter book would make it easier for kids to not only follow along, but dig deeper into the book helping lift the level of conversation and thinking about a shared text.

Particularly in a California where so many students have firsthand experience with the reality of immigration, this book has been very impactful with my current students. Having copies of the book for each kid would allow us to stretch out the work we are doing with the unit into writing, not only literary essay work but opinion writing as well. In addition, it would support our current ESL students to have a copy of the text in front of them.

Ms. Minas Gardner Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Home of the Brave • Amazon Business $7.99 27 $215.73

Materials cost

$215.73

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $19.74

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.24

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$268.71

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$47.42

Total project goal

$316.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $316.13

1 Donor

-$158.06

Donations toward project cost

-$134.35

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.71

match offer

-$158.07

Match offer toward project cost

-$134.36

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.71

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 $0.00

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