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Mr. Otsubo from Keaau, HI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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ORC (Outside Reading Club)

Help me give my students an up to date, mini library for the classroom!

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Otsubo's classroom raised $636

This project is fully funded

My Project

In a world saturated with devices and apps, the ability to pick up and sit back down with a good book is often a privilege for most students. This lack of opportunity not only results in drastically lower rates of literacy, but also robs students of the love for reading. As a former non-reader myself, I know the power one great book can have on a student. It can turn them into a reader. It can show them that they can.

The books included in this project have been curated by my students themselves.

Some students chose YA fiction. Some chose contemporary fiction or classics , some - graphic novels. Regardless of the genre, these were the books that appealed to my students in some way - the first key in the endeavor to unlock their inner reader.

Physical books are a privilege; one that is often only reserved for those who can afford it. It saddens me to see the closing of bookstores, but it troubles me to see public school libraries understocked (often stocked with severely outdated material) and used for purposes other than their primary mission: promoting literacy. While a classroom library is modest - at best - I firmly believe my students deserve a place to peruse, choose, and sit down with a good read.

Mr. Otsubo Kea'au High School Grades 9-12

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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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7) • Amazon Business $45.44 1 $45.44
The Once Series 6 Books Set Pack by Morris Gleitzman (Now, After, Then, Once, Soon, Maybe) • Amazon Business $27.95 1 $27.95
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series) • Amazon Business $14.26 1 $14.26
Delicious Monsters • Amazon Business $14.07 1 $14.07
Milkweed (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $14.00 1 $14.00
Together We Rot • Amazon Business $13.60 1 $13.60
The Poppy War: A Novel (The Poppy War, 1) • Amazon Business $13.60 1 $13.60
Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel • Amazon Business $12.69 1 $12.69
My Father, The Panda Killer • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
Under the Blood-Red Sun (Prisoners of the Empire Series) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Stars Above: A Lunar Chronicles Collection (The Lunar Chronicles) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Sharks in the Time of Saviors • Amazon Business $11.16 1 $11.16
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Darius the Great Is Not Okay • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Bar Code Tattoo (The Bar Code Trilogy, Book 1) (1) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Lovely Bones • Amazon Business $10.63 1 $10.63
Twisted Love (Twisted, 1) • Amazon Business $10.58 1 $10.58
The Silent Patient • Amazon Business $10.53 1 $10.53
The Body • Amazon Business $10.48 1 $10.48
King of Wrath (Kings of Sin, 1) • Amazon Business $10.40 1 $10.40
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End Series, 1) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Never Let Me Go • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Clown in a Cornfield • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Thieves' Gambit • Amazon Business $9.64 1 $9.64
Extraordinaries (The Extraordinaries, 1) • Amazon Business $9.57 1 $9.57
The Legacies • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles (The Lunar Chronicles, 1) • Amazon Business $9.43 1 $9.43
The Knife of Never Letting Go: With Bonus Short Story (Chaos Walking) • Amazon Business $9.06 1 $9.06
Ariadne • Amazon Business $8.92 1 $8.92
To Kill a Mockingbird • Amazon Business $8.76 1 $8.76
Catching Fire |Hunger Games| (The Hunger Games) • Amazon Business $8.67 1 $8.67
Norse Mythology • Amazon Business $8.40 1 $8.40
Fahrenheit 451 • Amazon Business $8.23 1 $8.23
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe • Amazon Business $7.93 1 $7.93
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas • Amazon Business $7.87 1 $7.87
The Things They Carried • Amazon Business $7.43 1 $7.43
1984: 75th Anniversary • Amazon Business $7.24 1 $7.24
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition • Amazon Business $7.08 1 $7.08
The Road (Oprah's Book Club) • Amazon Business $7.04 1 $7.04
The Catcher in the Rye • Amazon Business $7.03 1 $7.03
In the Lake of the Woods • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Astonishing Color of After • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Metamorphosis • Amazon Business $3.93 1 $3.93

Materials cost

$478.30

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.50

Sales tax

 $21.05

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.17

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$540.02

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$95.30

Total project goal

$635.32

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $635.32

1 Donor

-$635.32

Donations toward project cost

-$540.02

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$95.30

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