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Mrs. Silva from Sun Valley CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Captivating Novels for Young Readers

Help me give my students captivating books to spark the magic of reading! In the upcoming school year, I want to make for certain that my students have books of their own to enjoy all year long!

  • $845 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

Our school is a Title I public charter school serving a unique community outside Los Angeles. Our school's focus is on leadership, service learning, and social-emotional growth. By the end of the year, each student at our school participates in a service learning project to give back to the community in some way!

Because of our greater student population's economic circumstance, my students and the rest of our school receive free or reduced price lunch.

My students work incredibly hard each day and deserve to walk into our classroom everyday excited to learn and feel comfortable enough to experience triumphs and trials together!

My Project

With the unknown of the upcoming school year (because of Covid-19), I am not sure if I will be able to allow students to use our classroom library. If that is to be the case, I want to make sure that my students have access to exciting, engaging stories that we can read together.

I hope all my students will uncover the magic in each of these stories and continue to grow in their pursuit of learning!

These are some of my favorite young novels and I hope that the diverse choices push my students to consider how the stories that they read can affect their own lives. Being able to provide personal copies of each book to all of my class will also be really exciting and special for each of them, as well!

Mrs. Silva
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $6.99 25 $174.75
Moo: A Novel • Amazon Business $6.59 25 $164.75
Riding Freedom • Amazon Business $5.99 25 $149.75
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story • Amazon Business $5.29 25 $132.25

Materials cost

$621.50

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$56.87

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.32

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$717.69

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$126.65

Total project goal

$844.34

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$844.34

1 Donor

-$422.16

Donations toward project cost

-$358.84

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.32

match offer

-$422.18

Match offer toward project cost

-$358.85

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.33

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$0.00

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