My students need books that they are not only that interests them but that they identify with.
$518 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating 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.
We are a low-income school in Chicago, but that doesn't define who my students are. My students care a lot about their family, preserving their culture and heritage. They care about their neighborhood and are respectful of their learning environment. They are dynamic, hardworking and dedicated; and I want to provide them with a welcoming and flexible learning environment.
I want my students to be able to find a book that they can identify with and fall in love with reading.
My Project
I would love my students to be able to embark on reading adventures with characters that they are able to identify with.
It is difficult to create a yearning and love for reading in students, especially teenagers, but that is what drives me; I want students to fall in love with reading just as I have.
In order to do so, students need to have reading materials that they want to read and that they are able to identify and connect with. By providing them with different reading materials it will open up an array of options and I hope this will open the door for them to fall in love with reading.
Rustic Wooden Framed Standing Chalkboard Sign with Non-Porous Magnetic Chalk Board Surface for Vintage Decor for Kitchen, Restaurant, Bar Countertop, Wedding, and Home
• Amazon Business
$15.99
1
$15.99
The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family
• Amazon Business
$15.27
1
$15.27
Turtles All the Way Down
• AKJ Education
$14.59
1
$14.59
Words on Bathroom Walls
• AKJ Education
$13.13
1
$13.13
Even When You Lie to Me
• AKJ Education
$13.13
1
$13.13
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
• AKJ Education
$13.13
1
$13.13
The Rock and the River
• AKJ Education
$13.13
1
$13.13
Irena's Children
• AKJ Education
$13.13
1
$13.13
Darius & Twig
• AKJ Education
$13.13
1
$13.13
Denton Little's Deathdate
• Amazon Business
$12.41
1
$12.41
Yummy The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
• AKJ Education
$12.37
1
$12.37
Dear Martin
• Amazon Business
$12.32
1
$12.32
The Hate U Give
• AKJ Education
$11.69
1
$11.69
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
• AKJ Education
$11.68
1
$11.68
True Grit
• AKJ Education
$11.64
1
$11.64
The Librarian of Auschwitz
• Amazon Business
$11.59
1
$11.59
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
• Amazon Business
$11.55
1
$11.55
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
• Amazon Business
$10.70
1
$10.70
Soldier Boy
• Amazon Business
$10.68
1
$10.68
Homegoing
• Amazon Business
$10.59
1
$10.59
This Is Where It Ends
• Amazon Business
$10.38
1
$10.38
Booked
• Amazon Business
$10.15
1
$10.15
Girl Mans Up
• Amazon Business
$9.99
1
$9.99
Salt to the Sea
• Amazon Business
$9.74
1
$9.74
Playing for the Devil's Fire
• Amazon Business
$9.74
1
$9.74
Blue Gold
• Amazon Business
$9.60
1
$9.60
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
• AKJ Education
$9.49
1
$9.49
No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row
• AKJ Education
$9.48
1
$9.48
Divided We Fall (Divided We Fall, Book 1)
• Amazon Business
$9.08
1
$9.08
Not If I See You First
• Amazon Business
$8.84
1
$8.84
Looking for Alaska
• AKJ Education
$8.02
1
$8.02
Brown Girl Dreaming
• Amazon Business
$8.00
1
$8.00
Black Like Me
• AKJ Education
$7.29
1
$7.29
Bad Boy A Memoir
• AKJ Education
$7.29
1
$7.29
Shooter
• AKJ Education
$7.29
1
$7.29
All American Boys
• Amazon Business
$6.37
1
$6.37
Totally Joe
• AKJ Education
$5.83
1
$5.83
This Book Is Gay
• Amazon Business
$5.49
1
$5.49
Materials cost
$403.92
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$6.06
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$439.98
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$77.64
Total project goal
$517.62
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$517.62
3 Donors
-$467.62
Donations toward project cost
-$397.48
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$70.14
match offer
-$50.00
Match offer toward project cost
-$42.50
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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