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Ms. Varela from El Monte, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Multicultural Books Are Needed!

Help me give my students a Multicultural and diverse book to read at home.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Varela's classroom raised $364

This project is fully funded

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

My students are a wonderful group of third graders. They come to school ready and eager to learn. They are bright, curious, and love to learn. We are a Title I school and have a high population of low socioeconomic families. Yet, our families love and care very much for their children and want the best education for them. Our students deserve to have every opportunity to be academically successful. They deserve to have updated technological tools like other schools in our area.

My Project

My students and I need books to read with more diversity and multicultural themes. Students need to learn at a young age how to treat others that may be a difference from themselves. We are a multicultural world and we need to learn to all work together in order to live productive and successful lives. My students would be able to read these stories of perseverance and courage to help them better understand these champions of civil rights. Students will learn character traits that lead to institutional change for the betterment of our society.

Ms. Varela Cherrylee Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

El Monte, CA View local requests

Nearly all 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

25 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The last stop on market street • AKJ Education $13.86 2 $27.72
Separate Is Never Equal • AKJ Education $13.83 2 $27.66
Henry's Freedom Box • AKJ Education $13.13 2 $26.26
Biblioburro • AKJ Education $13.13 2 $26.26
The Story Of Ruby Bridges: Special Anniversary Edition (Common Core Exemplar) • AKJ Education $5.10 4 $20.40
Chocolate Me! • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
Sit-In • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Maybe Something Beautiful • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Too Many Tamales • AKJ Education $6.56 2 $13.12
Fish in a Tree • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
The Name Jar • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
Those Shoes • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
I Love Saturdays y domingos • AKJ Education $5.83 2 $11.66
How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay • AKJ Education $5.10 2 $10.20
Who Was Rosa Parks? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37

Materials cost

$246.55

Vendor shipping charges

$6.00

Sales tax

$22.56

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$308.81

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$54.50

Total project goal

$363.31

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$363.31

4 Donors

-$219.16

Donations toward project cost

-$186.29

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.87

Matching donations from our partners

-$144.14

Match offers toward project cost

-$122.52

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.62

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$0.00

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