social action

Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy, the couple whose lives were depicted in the 2009 film, "The Blind Side," describe their lives and how their family changed family after they decided to adopt Michael Oher, a homeless African-American boy.

Includes a wide variety of service projects, involving different degrees of time and commitment, that young people can implement to better their communities, with step-by-step instructions, a discussion of why community service is important, and advice on how to plan, execute, and gather support for a project.

Environmental activists Jane Drake and Ann Love describe nine steps to social change, provide accounts of organizations who have helped make the world a better place, and offer tips and inspiration for making a difference.

Text and photographs present stories of young Americans who have made a difference throughout history.

Mira Bella mobilizes her art students, from grandmothers to children, crabs to seagulls, to stop a dastardly plan for turning the beach at Ballyhoo Bay into an exclusive resort, and offers an alternative--leave the beach as it is.

Presents a children's book for early readers that encourages kids to make a difference in their community by doing chores for neightbors who might be sick, getting to know others in the community, serving meals at a soup kitchen, and more.

Covers the definition, principles, and methods of nonviolence, including civil disobedience.

Contains approximately eighty short anecdotes that relate how small acts of courage and tenacity allowed individuals to create major change, describing how dogs were used in a protest against a deadly regime, how women in Africa managed to pressure warlords to end their war, and other stories.

While visiting her hippie godmother in rural Canada, New Jersey girl Jenna gets a rude awakening about her ideas of Green Teen activism, vegetarianism, and the wilderness after an encounter with a moose, a Goth, and a hostile boy named Reeve. She gets help from a survival guide but that doesn't help her navigate her heart.

Describes ways in which children have helped their communities and the world by working on such problems as the environment, drugs, and health care.