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Ms. Pertuz-Meza from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Book Clubs

Help me give my students more book club choices to talk about and fall in love with reading.

  • $601 goal

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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

Over the years I have noticed that book clubs are a great way to get fifth graders excited about reading. They are motivated to meet and discuss books with their peers and look forward to assigning pages to read for their next session as well as suggesting upcoming titles to read.

Reluctant readers show a greater willingness to read if they are in book clubs with their peers and the books are centered around social justice themes.

This provides some students with mirrors to see themselves in books and windows to see others, developing compassion along the way.

So much of our learning is done through discourse and books clubs facilitate conversations among peers around the big and little things in life. Big things, such as themes around assimilation, family, identity, and human triumph, but also around details which incapsulate the specificity of the human experience, making it universal.

Ms. Pertuz-Meza PS 130 the Parkside - Upper School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Brooklyn, NY View local requests

More than half 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

27 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Finally Seen • Amazon Business $16.19 6 $97.14
Meet Me Halfway • Amazon Business $15.39 6 $92.34
Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You • Amazon Business $12.56 6 $75.36
Sofía Acosta Makes a Scene • Amazon Business $9.89 6 $59.34
New from Here • Amazon Business $8.99 6 $53.94
Barakah Beats • Amazon Business $7.99 6 $47.94
The Tryout: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $10.99 2 $21.98
Invisible: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $8.34 2 $16.68
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99

Materials cost

$473.71

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.11

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$510.82

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$90.14

Total project goal

$600.96

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $600.96

9 Donors

-$499.54

Donations toward project cost

-$447.06

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$52.48

match offer

-$75.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$63.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$26.41

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 $0.00

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