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

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Diversity Is Strong in Our Community - Read On!

Help me give my students books about many different cultures so they can learn about other people in our community and develop respect for others.

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My Students

I teach twenty-five happy and excited-to-learn third graders, and all day long they have fun growing and thinking, and trying their best. Our school is a wonderful, small multicultural school located in Los Angeles. Approximately 30% of our students school qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and everyone receives free breakfast.

We love to help students at our school feel pride in their different cultural backgrounds, so having books about different cultures that we can read to our students will be amazing!

Families in our town embrace how diverse our community is. They choose to live here so their children can attend our diverse, multicultural school. Your help bringing books that teach diversity is greatly appreciated!

My Project

We need more books to read to our students so our kids can gain new knowledge and respect for our multicultural community. Developing empathy for others, and learning about important events in the growth of different cultures in America are important life lessons for our students.

These books I have requested are an amazing group of read aloud books and novels that will be read to students throughout the school year.

What a great way to develop empathy for others and respect for people that have different cultural backgrounds than we do. These books will be used year after year, having a positive effect on our students and our school community.

Mrs. Kugelman Dahlia Heights Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Los Angeles, CA View local requests 25 students impacted 5donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
A Different Mirror for Young People A History of Multicultural America • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Two White Rabbits • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Each Kindness • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Islandborn • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Other Side • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Jingle Dancer • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Brown Girl Dreaming • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Freedom Over Me • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Mama's Nightingale A Story of Immigration and Separation • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Radiant Child • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote A Migrant's Tale • AKJ Education $13.10 1 $13.10
Side by Side / Lado a lado • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Gandhi: My Life is My Message My Life Is My Message • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
This Is the Rope A Story From the Great Migration • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
The Great Migration Journey to the North • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Enchanted Air • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Africa is not a Country • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
The Great Migration An American Story • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Buffalo Bird Girl A Hidatsa Story • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
Giving Thanks A Native American Good Morning Message • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
The First Rule of Punk • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Circle Unbroken The Story of a Basket and Its People • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Dreamer • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Inside Out and Back Again • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Nettie's Trip South • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Dancing Home • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Grandfather's Journey • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
My Name Is Yoon • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Coolies • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Encounter • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Amina's Voice • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Dragonwings: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1903 • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Dragon's Gate Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1867 • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Sitti'S Secrets • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The First Strawberries A Cherokee Story • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back A Native American Year of Moons • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Name Jar • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Birchbark House • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Project Mulberry • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Sylvia & Aki • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Child of the Civil Rights Movement • AKJ Education $2.50 1 $2.50

Materials cost

$433.14

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $39.63

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$509.27

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$89.87

Total project goal

$599.14

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $599.14

1 Donor

-$258.38

Donations toward project cost

-$258.38

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$295.16

Match offer toward project cost

-$250.89

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.27

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$45.60

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 $0.00

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