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Mrs. Kahawai from Costa Mesa, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Me Give Them the Books They Want to Read!

Help me give my students the books that THEY have requested to read!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Kahawai's classroom raised $832

This project is fully funded

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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

Charitable organizations (like this one!) have helped me build a wonderful classroom library to support independent reading. But we're not done yet! My students are excited about the opportunities to explore different genres and titles, and they have been letting me know what is currently missing. I gathered data and students indicated that we need more romance, horror, poetry, and graphic novels on the bookshelves. So here I am, donors, to help make their requests a reality! These students only need that one experience with a good book to change their perspective forever. With this library of options, many of my students will break through the fear of reading for choice and have the FIRST rewarding reading experience of their lives. They can discover in these fiction and nonfiction titles the same excitement usually reserved for TV, movies, and video games.

We are teaching them more than grammar and vocabulary; we are teaching them how to use their imagination and fall in love with a story.

This will change them forever. These students have everything in them to become the future leaders of this country and this world, but they need our help to get there. I believe becoming a life-long reader is vital in ensuring the cognitive and social success of my students. We must dispel this myth of dusty old books full of foreign facts and figures and place into their hands the seeds that will germinate into a true love of literature.

Mrs. Kahawai Costa Mesa Middle High School Grades 9-12

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.

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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

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Womens Murder Club 6 Books Collection Set by James Patterson (Books 1 - 6) • Amazon Business $44.65 1 $44.65
Trials of Apollo, The 5-Book Paperback Boxed Set • Amazon Business $39.15 1 $39.15
The Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set Volumes 1-4: The First Four Novels (Walt Longmire Mysteries) • Amazon Business $31.99 1 $31.99
Attack on Titan Season 1 Part 1 Manga Box Set (Attack on Titan Manga Box Sets) • Amazon Business $27.80 1 $27.80
The Selection 5-Book Box Set: The Complete Series • Amazon Business $26.30 1 $26.30
Percy Jackson and the Olympians 5 Book Paperback Boxed Set (w/poster) (Percy Jackson & the Olympians) • Amazon Business $18.29 1 $18.29
Sacrifice Box • Amazon Business $16.12 1 $16.12
The Mamba Mentality: How I Play • Amazon Business $16.00 1 $16.00
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Winners: A Novel (Beartown Series) • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
Heart Bones: A Novel • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
The Candy House • Amazon Business $14.00 1 $14.00
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) • Amazon Business $13.50 1 $13.50
The Finalists • Amazon Business $13.21 1 $13.21
A Wicked Magic • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
paper wings • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Harrow Lake • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Do Not Disturb: An addictive psychological thriller • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Locked Door: A gripping psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Not If I Save You First • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
It Starts with Us: A Novel (It Ends with Us) • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
Us Against You: A Novel (Beartown Series) • Amazon Business $10.84 1 $10.84
The Inmate: A gripping psychological thriller • Amazon Business $10.63 1 $10.63
The Haunted • Amazon Business $10.29 1 $10.29
My Hero Academia, Vol. 4 (4) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
It Ends with Us: A Novel (1) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Hoodie Girl • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Wild Cards I: Expanded Edition (Wild Cards, 1) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Promised Neverland, Vol. 3 (3) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, 1) • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 7 (7) • Amazon Business $9.69 1 $9.69
just because im young • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 8 (8) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
There's Someone Inside Your House • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
Good Girl, Bad Blood: The Sequel to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder • Amazon Business $8.41 1 $8.41
The Cellar • Amazon Business $8.11 1 $8.11
Serafina and the Black Cloak (The Serafina Series Book 1) (Serafina, 1) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Serafina and the Twisted Staff (Serafina, 2) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
My Hero Academia, Vol. 3 (3) • Amazon Business $7.75 1 $7.75
The Promised Neverland, Vol. 2 (2) • Amazon Business $7.68 1 $7.68
You Will Be Mine • Amazon Business $7.37 1 $7.37
The Brightest Night (Wings of Fire #5) (5) • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
Moon Rising (Wings of Fire, Book 6) • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 6 (6) • Amazon Business $6.49 1 $6.49
Winter Turning (Wings of Fire #7) (7) • Amazon Business $6.43 1 $6.43
healing for no one but me • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$611.73

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $55.97

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.18

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$706.88

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$124.74

Total project goal

$831.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $831.62

5 Donors

-$483.42

Donations toward project cost

-$437.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.17

Matching donations from our partners

-$317.21

Match offers toward project cost

-$269.63

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$47.58

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$30.99

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