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

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Historical Fiction Teaches History

My students need engaging historical fiction, such as 35 copies of "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" as well as the audiobook, that has the ability to entertain and educate.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Bonilla's classroom raised $267

This project is fully funded

My Students

Public schools face challenges beyond budget cuts. Watered down curriculum in the form of the mandated "reading series" prevents us from teaching students to devour a 300-page novel. We need to get full novels into the hands of young readers, anthologies with "excerpts" are insufficient.

I work in a gifted magnet that services a cross-section of public school children in Los Angeles County.

I teach a group of 34 sixth grade students who love learning and require extensive amounts of material to feed their curiosity. I have very limited funding to purchase literature sets for reading instruction and our school district has a ban on asking students to purchase their own books (most can't afford the books anyway). Every year I deplete the limited set of novels that are available to my students for quality reading instruction. I need new books and I need them soon!

My Project

I am requesting a class set of Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl and a lesson plan teacher guide. Access to a complete work of literature will allow me to service the needs of a gifted population for whom the District's core reading program is insufficiently challenging and quite frankly, boring. The students in my program are offended that the "reading anthology" only gives them at most a chapter of a novel! Gifted students welcome the challenge of reading long, interesting, and thought provoking literature. Anne Frank's story is captivating and inspiring for students at this age. Gifted students want to learn, question, and construct new ideas. Anne Frank will serve as a role model of bravery and writing. In these classes are the authors of tomorrow who demand to be inspired and motivated by complete works of literature, not "excerpts."

Regardless of the medium that will carry on great literature, ebooks or paperbacks, our students need to read, and they need to read full-length books.

I need literature that will reach my diverse population of gifted learners. These kids need to be inspired by great literature; they are tomorrow's great authors, and leaders.

Ms. Bonilla Eagle Rock Elementary School Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than a third 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
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl • AKJ Books $4.67 35 $163.45
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl - NU0983 • AKJ Books $9.35 1 $9.35

Materials cost

$172.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $15.81

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.59

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$226.20

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$39.92

Total project goal

$266.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $266.12

1 Donor

-$226.20

Donations toward project cost

-$226.20

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$39.92

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 $0.00

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