social action

Explores how one should behave in a community, showing ways to be responsible, respectful, safe, and kind.

Contains information and activities designed to help young people in grades six and up find ways to address the needs of animals in their communities and around the world.

Provides information about hunger and homelessness to students in grades six and up, looks at what young people are doing to fight the problems, offers advice on how kids can become involved in efforts to combat hunger and homelessness in their communities, and includes examples.

Discusses the problem of world hunger with examples of children from South and Central America.

Paula Sherman witnesses the murder of a friend; but when she attempts to seek justice, she finds herself in the national spotlight as her words and image are stolen and used in a pro-handgun election campaign.

Although Tommy, a Japanese-American sixth-grader, has serious doubts when his mother starts organizing a rally to fight racism, once he and his friends find a cause of their own he gains more understanding of her motives.

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.

Discusses how nonviolent weapons have been used to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders, and secure human rights throughout the twentieth century.

Profiles ten American women from different regions, ethnic backgrounds, and times who are working or have worked against violence.