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Ms. Cazares from Phoenix AZ is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Growing Readers: One Book at a Time

Help me give my students access to novels they WANT to read over the summer.

  • 1 donor
  • $407 still needed

expires Jul 24

  • 1 donor
  • $407 still needed
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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 Project

Students enter ninth grade, at times, hating to read--for assorted reasons. Thus, it's my job to plant the seed of literacy. I plant the seed by supplying my students with modern and high interest novels that are companion novels for the traditional cannon. For example, while reading The Odyssey as a class, students select from over 15 modern myth-based novels to read in conjunction, such Lore, Daughter of Sparta, and A Song of Wraiths and Ruin.

Help me continue to water and fertilize my students' love of reading.

My students are currently reading companion novels for Romeo and Juliet like Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris and All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir. And in Art/ELA, my students are reading a graphic novel by Montague called Maybe An Artist.

As we hurtle toward the end-of-the-year, students have begun approaching me about checking out novels over summer break--seriously, my heart is bursting with joy! Students requesting novels, amazing! A few students have even requested specific titles. So, I am hoping you can help me provide these novels for my students.

Thank you for your generous support.

Ms. Cazares
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East • Amazon Business $13.39 3 $40.17
Yayoi Kusama Covered Everything in Dots and Wasn't Sorry. • Amazon Business $17.95 2 $35.90
Louise Bourgeois Made Giant Spiders and Wasn't Sorry. • Amazon Business $15.39 2 $30.78
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles • Amazon Business $10.99 2 $21.98
The Things We Cannot Say: A WWII Historical Fiction Novel • Amazon Business $10.43 2 $20.86
2am Thoughts • Amazon Business $9.40 2 $18.80
Challenger Deep • Amazon Business $8.99 2 $17.98
Reading & Writing Japanese: A Workbook for Self-Study: A Beginner's Guide to Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji (Free Online Audio and Printable Flash Cards) • Amazon Business $8.79 2 $17.58
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir • Amazon Business $8.29 2 $16.58
Jade Fire Gold • Amazon Business $15.49 1 $15.49
The Magic Fish: (A Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $13.29 1 $13.29
A Thousand Steps into Night • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Lovely War • Amazon Business $10.29 1 $10.29
She's Too Pretty to Burn: A Novel • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir • Amazon Business $8.69 1 $8.69
Howl's Moving Castle • Amazon Business $7.69 1 $7.69

Materials cost

$307.55

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$21.99

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.61

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$364.15

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$64.26

Total project goal

$428.41

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$428.41

1 Donor

-$20.00

Donations toward project cost

-$19.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.35

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$406.06

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