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Mrs. Castellanos from Hawthorne, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Fill Our Shelves with Graphic Novels

Help me give my students graphic novels like Sunny Side Up and Swing It, Sunny: The Box Set, Star Wars: Prequel Trilogy Graphic Novel, Science Comics: Skyscrapers: The Heights of Engineering, Best Friends, and I am Neil Armstrong.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Castellanos's classroom raised $244

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 bright and spirited students are always eager to learn. These students come from a low-socioeconomic area in Los Angeles. Most of our students receive free or reduced-price lunch. This does not stop their eagerness to learn and read!

My students are so excited about reading!

If they could read all day, they would! They love our read aloud time. This is a time where we meet on the carpet to read stories. We have great conversations about the books we read. Students also love their independent reading time as well. Although are independent reading time is limited, they truly appreciate this time of the day. It's the time when they can get lost in a book and forget about everything else.

My Project

My students love reading, especially graphic novels! Our class has a pretty good collection of graphic novels. However, at this point in the school year, students have read all of the graphic novels in our collection and are begging for more.

Our library needs some color, and graphic novels are just the thing to add color!

We are requesting graphic novels, because I just can't keep enough of these books on our shelves. Sometimes students can be reluctant to read, but I have never seen a student turn down a graphic novel.

This request will put a good amount of books in students' hands. These books will be used for our class read aloud time. Students will be able to check these books out of our classroom library to read during independent reading time. We also requested a blank comic book, so we can create some graphic novels of our own. We are so excited for the chance to add more graphic novels to our library!

Mrs. Castellanos Eucalyptus Elementary School 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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More than three‑quarters 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
Sunny Side Up and Swing It, Sunny: The Box Set • Amazon Business $17.19 1 $17.19
Star Wars: Prequel Trilogy Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $12.54 1 $12.54
Lafayette! (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #8): A Revolutionary War Tale • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Science Comics: Skyscrapers: The Heights of Engineering • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Science Comics: Solar System: Our Place in Space • Amazon Business $10.47 1 $10.47
Noise: A graphic novel based on a true story • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Last Kids on Earth and the Zombie Parade • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
I Survived The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $8.39 1 $8.39
I am Neil Armstrong (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $8.39 1 $8.39
Camp (A Click Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Science Comics: Wild Weather: Storms, Meteorology, and Climate • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women • Amazon Business $7.53 1 $7.53
The Last Kids on Earth Survival Guide • Amazon Business $7.39 1 $7.39
Smile • Amazon Business $7.00 1 $7.00
The Crossover (Graphic Novel) (The Crossover Series) • Amazon Business $6.49 1 $6.49
Click (A Click Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
Blank Comic Book (Draw Your Own Comics): A Large Notebook and Sketchbook for Kids and Adults to Draw Comics and Journal • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Best Friends (Real Friends) • Amazon Business $5.79 1 $5.79

Materials cost

$159.90

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $14.63

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.40

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$206.93

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$36.52

Total project goal

$243.45

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $243.45

3 Donors

-$120.84

Donations toward project cost

-$104.21

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.63

match offer

-$120.85

Match offer toward project cost

-$102.72

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.13

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

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