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Ms. Parvin from Berwyn, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Therapy For At-Risk Students Using BOOKS!!

My students need a collection of books, including 5 copies each of 10 titles, from "Bridge to Terabithia" to "Skin I'm In".

  • $582 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 special needs and at-risk students need books to aid them in dealing with the "hands they've been dealt". I am a school social worker and I facilitate groups of students who are dealing with struggles that range from having a disability, living in poverty, having parent(s) who are in jail, living in single-parent households, to things such as drug and gang activity. My students are ages 6-12. They come to school with so much on their mind already that they often miss out on the academic content because they are worrying about whether dad will be home when they get there, or whether mom will be arrested again for a probation violation.

I have started a few bibliotherapy groups at school that have really taken off with the students. We are using fictional stories to aid the students in understanding their own problems through a character that they can identify with. We read the book, discuss the obstacle and the characters' solutions, and the students get a chance to implement this into their own lives as a result. We have seen a lot of progress through this delivery, and my students are becoming more and more creative about how they can deal with their own everyday issues.

The problem that we currently have is lack of reading materials. Students are showing up day after day with an interest in participating in these groups, students who have never cared about reading in their life, and we don't have the materials to take them on. More of these books will allow us to address these issues in a way that is not like the traditional "therapy" model, and in a way that the students have clung to and really taken off with.

Your help will make it possible for my students to see that they can't change their situations, but they can control how it affects their life.

Ms. Parvin Thomas Jefferson Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Berwyn, IL 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

30 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Rules Cynthia Lord • Barnes and Noble $6.29 5 $31.45
Loser Jerry Spinelli, Eileen Spinelli (Editor), Joanna Cotler (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $5.39 5 $26.95
Skin I'm In Sharon G. Flake, Tk (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $4.98 5 $24.90
Becoming Naomi Leon Ryan • Barnes and Noble $6.29 5 $31.45
Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech • Barnes and Noble $6.29 5 $31.45
Stuck in Neutral Terry Trueman • Barnes and Noble $8.09 5 $40.45
The Tequila Worm Viola Canales • Barnes and Noble $7.19 5 $35.95
The Twilight Saga Collection Stephenie Meyer • Barnes and Noble $58.10 1 $58.10
Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson, Donna Diamond (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 5 $31.45
Crash Jerry Spinelli • Barnes and Noble $5.85 5 $29.25
Eleven Lauren Myracle • Barnes and Noble $6.29 5 $31.45
Big Sister Blues (The English Roses Series #5) Madonna, Jeffrey Fulvimari (Illustrator), With Amy Cloud • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
The New Girl (The English Roses Series) Madonna, Jeffrey Fulvimari (Illustrator), With Amy Cloud • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
A Rose by Any Other Name (The English Roses Series) Madonna, Jeffrey Fulvimari (Illustrator), With Erica Ottenberg • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Goodbye, Grace? (The English Roses Series) Madonna, Jeffrey Fulvimari (Illustrator), With Rebecca Gomez • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99

Materials cost

$408.81

Vendor shipping charges

 $40.88

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.22

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$477.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$104.71

Total project goal

$581.71

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $581.71

2 Donors

-$561.18

Donations toward project cost

-$477.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$84.18

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$20.53

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