social action

True stories about 26 young people who began their own businesses, helped the homeless, and tried to save the environment.

Describes projects for the young activist, such as fighting hunger, ending poverty, and saving the environment.

Provides strategies and methods for different ways to help others, including activism, volunteering and community service, and fundraising, and includes real-life stories of girls who have successfully used these methods.

Part memoir and part how-to manual for corporate "revolutionaries," Hewlett-Packard Barbara Waugh's story shows how successful transformation is the result of a series of "small wins.".

When Blodwen and her family learn that the countryside around their peaceful village is threatened by highway-builders, they ally themselves unknowingly with the Guardians of the tombs of long-dead chieftains, who fear nothing so much as humans and their destructive ways.

A portrait of India's lower classes including interviews with activists who are mobilizing for social change.

A neighborhood unites to create a community garden on an empty lot, then must fight to keep it when the owners of the lot want to build a parking lot.