When Estella is banned from the adult exercise dance class, she decides to petition for children's rights--to have salsa dance classes at the community center.
A guide to making the world more "awesome" that contains stories about kids changing the world, step-by-step information about how to make pretty much everything a little bit awesomer, and interviews with celebrities.
Explores the notion of "craftivism," where people will make handmade crafts and artwork with the goal of changing a community, raising awareness for a social cause, or simply brightening another person's day.
In 2035, Dahlia Grillo, a sixteen-year-old math whiz, joins with six other American teens traveling to England to meet with groups from around the world in hopes of stopping C8, the companies that control nearly everything for their own benefit.
Traces the development of an organization of volunteers, dedicated to prevention of crime in the streets and on subways, founded by New Yorker Curtis Sliwa in 1979.
how an ordinary person can create extraordinary change
Braun, Adam
2014
Details how Adam Braun, inspired after meeting a begging young boy on the streets of India, quit his job at Bain & Company to start up the organization Pencils of Promise, which has since built more than two hundred schools around the world.
