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Service Learning Books
The Kid’s Guide to Service Projects (available for check-out)
Barbara A. Lewis
This book provides over 500 service ideas for young people who want to make a difference.
Lend a Hand: The How, Where, and Why of Volunteering (available for check-out)
Sara Gilbert
This book lists more than one hundred national and international groups that welcome young volunteers.
Children as Volunteers (available for check-out)
Susan J. Ellis, Anne Weisbord, and Katherine H. Noyes
This is a guide to preparing for community service.
Stone Soup (available for check-out)
Marcia Brown
(picture book)
What You Can Do For Your Country (available for check-out)
Report of the Commission on National and Community Service
Things that Work in Community Service-Learning (available for check-out)
Lisa J. Laplante and Carol W. Kinsley
This book provides examples of real service-learning projects. It gives curricular connections, grade level, and real-life testimonials about the project.
Collaboration Handbook – Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey (available for check-out)
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
This handbook provides information about how to effectively collaborate while serving others.
Service-Learning for the Multiple Intelligences Classroom (available for check-out)
Sally Berman
This book gives general information about service-learning and multiple intelligences, but also gives several projects in different curricular areas: health, social studies, physical education, consumer science, language arts, technology, visual arts, and science.
Reclaiming Youth at Risk (available for check-out)
Larry K. Brendtro, Martin Brokenleg, and Steve Van Bockern
This book is about how to reach youth at risk and bring them back
Act Field Guide (available for check-out)
Constitutional Rights Foundation
This is a hands-on guide to service. It helps with brainstorming, project development and action.
No Kidding Around! America’s Young Activists are Changing Our World and You Can Too (available for check-out)
Wendy Schaetzel Lesko
This is an easy-to-use, practical guide to getting students involved in change.
Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge (available for check-out)
Mem Fox
This story is about a young boy and his elderly friend who is losing her memory. It would be great to use in an intergenerational service project or as a model for service-learning. (picture book)
Writing From the Heart (available for check-out)
Edited by Peggy Veljkovic and Arthur J. Schwartz
This is a collection of essays written by children on what they see as their “Laws of Life”.
Where’s the Service in Service-Learning (available for check-out)
Janet Eyler and Dwight E. Giles, Jr.
This book helps define learning expectations, presents data about learning, and links program characteristics with learning outcomes.
Younger Voices Stronger Choices (available for check-out)
Loring Leifer and Michael McLarney
This is a how-to guide to forming successful partnerships between adults and youth.
Kids as Planners (available for check-out)
This is a guide to strengthening students, schools and communities through service-learning.
Evaluating Service-Learning Activities and Programs (available for check-out)
David A. Payne
This book is an extended case study which guides you through evaluating service-learning outcomes and their relevance to the curriculum.
How to Make the World a Better Place (available for check-out)
Jeffrey Hollender
This book is a guide to how students can effect positive social change. It gives over 100 quick and easy actions.
How to Get Things Done, Design, Leadership and Models (available for check-out)
Harry C. Silcox
This book is a guide for starting a service-learning program.
Teaching Young Children Through Service (available for check-out)
Ann Shoemaker
This is a practical guide for understanding and practicing service-learning with children ages 4 through 8.
What is Service-Learning? (available for check-out)
Presented by: Pamela Toole
This is an overview of the service-learning cycle. It includes many information sheets about the process of service-learning.
Effective Learning, Effective Teaching, Effective Service (available for check-out)
Youth Service America
This book has essays “from the field” on improving education through service-learning.
What You Need to Know: a Manual on Developing Youth Leadership (available for check-out)
Community Training and Assistance Center
This book has activities to build leadership in youth.
Turning Points: Laws of Life Essay Contest (available for check-out)
This book gives Laws of Life essays from students who were finalists in Palm Beach County, Florida.
Community Service-Learning – A Guide to Including Service in the Public School Curriculum (available for check-out)
Edited by Rahima C. Wade
Service-Learning: A Movement’s Pioneers Reflect on Its Origins, Practice and Future (available for check-out)
Timothy K. Stanton, Dwight E. Giles, Jr. and Nadinne I. Cruz
This book traces the origins of service-learning in America.
Answer the Call (available for check-out)
Youth Service America
This is a resource guide to help students and adults effectively serve in America. It includes information about national service, an overview of service, and resources for national service.
We are Resourceful – A Community Problem-Solving Resource Kit for Young People (available for check-out)
United Way of America
This is a guide that will help young people help solve problems in their own community. It includes information such as how to get together a team of help, tips on researching the problem, help with making a plan, help with raising funds, etc.
Growing Hope – A Sourcebook on Integrating Youth Service into the School Curriculum (available for check-out)
Rich Willits Cairn and Dr. James C. Kielsmeier, Editors NYLC
This book offers background, definitions, rationale, practical aids, sample program materials and resource contacts to assist in developing new service-learning programs or improving already established ones.
Community and Service Learning (available for check-out)
Imogene Forte, Sandra Schurr
This book provides worksheets to be used by the teacher to help students with service projects.
Doing Self-Directed Study for Service-Learning (available for check-out)
Robert Shumer and Thomas H. Berkas
This book gives worksheets in directions on how to collect information about service projects.
Special Education Service-Learning Guide (available for check-out)
Maryland Student Service Alliance
This guide provides help with completing service-learning projects with special education students.
Critical Issues in K-12 Service-Learning (available for check-out)
Edited by Gita Gulati-Partee and William R. Finger
This book gives help with several issues faced by service-learning practitioners, such as time issues, how to identify community need, raising money, etc.
Route to Reform: K-8 Service-Learning Curriculum Ideas (available for check-out)
National Youth Leadership Council
This book gives examples of service-learning projects that have already been implemented. Each project includes a timeline, equipment needed, educational strategies, personal growth outcomes, community involvement, reflection activities, means of assessment, hurdles encountered, and suggested reading/viewing.