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We all want to change the world ...
Stories
about making a difference |  |
| Hope Was Here by Joan
Bauer | YA FIC BAUER |
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised
her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in
the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political
campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
| The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger |
YA FIC DANZIGER |
When the unconventional English teacher who helped her
conquer many of her feelings of insecurity is fired, a junior high student uses
her new found courage to campaign for the teacher's reinstatement.
| Lostman's
River by Cynthia DeFelice | YA
FIC DEFELICE | In the early 1900s,
thirteen-year-old Tyler encounters vicious hunters whose actions threaten to destroy
the Everglades ecosystem, and as a result joins the battle to protect that fragile
environment.
| Whirligig by Paul Fleischman |
YA FIC FLEISCHMAN |
After being humiliated at a party, Brent tries to kill
himself. His suicide attempt fails, but he kills a young girl in the process.
The girl's mother requests that Brent build four wind toys in her memory and place
them in the four corners of the USA in her memory. His cross-country journey and
the four whirligigs affect him and many others for years afterwards.
| Hoot
by Carl Hiassen | YA FIC
HIASSEN | Roy, who is new to his
small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony
of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
| Pay it Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde |
FIC HYDE | For
a school assignment on changing the world, Trevor he comes up with a great new
idea. He will do good deeds for three people, but instead of asking them to pay
him back, he will tell them to "pay it forward" - to do good things
for three other people, and so on. The story isn't sugar-coated, but Trevor's
earnestness makes you want his project to succeed.
| God of Beer by Garret Keizer |
YA FIC KEIZER |
In the far reaches of Ira County, Vermont, in the dead
of winter, it seems there's nothing to do. But when eighteen-year-old Kyle Nelson
and a handful of friends decide to challenge the status quo with an act of civil
disobedience, they discover that there's more to do than they ever bargained for.
| Slumming
by Kristen D. Randle | YA
FIC RANDLE | In their senior year
of high school, three best friends, Nikki, Alicia, and Sam, attempt an "experiment"
in which they each befriend a classmate they think needs attention and try to
improve that person's life.
Doing Time: Notes from
the Undergrad
| by Rob Thomas | YA
FIC THOMAS | Every student at
Robert E. Lee High School must complete 200 hours of community service. Their
experiences "doing time" in these 10 short stories rarely turn out as
they expected.
Nonfiction
In
My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Survivor
| by Irene Gut Opdyke | 921
OPDYKE | Irene Gut was a teen
in Poland when Hilter began expanding rounding up Jews for extermination. Once
she figured out what was happening, she knew it wasn't right. She began with one
small act of defiance - slipping food under the ghetto's fence. Beginning with
that act, she began a crusade to subvert the Nazis and to save the lives of those
they were trying to kill.
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updated
November 28, 2007 |
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