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Books to Read with Children on the Topic of Civic Education
Active Citizenship Today, Field Guide and Handbook (available for check-out)
Constitutional Rights Foundation
These two books give hands-on ideas to help students become active citizens.
No Kidding Around – America’s Young Activists are Changing our World (available for check-out)
Wendy Schaetzel Lesko
This is a “how-to” guide for becoming an activist. It includes training ideas, ways to raise money, ways to publicize and real-life examples.
The Kid’s Guide to Social Action – How to Solve the Social Problems you Choose and Turn Creative Thinking into Positive Action (available for check-out)
Barbara A. Lewis
This is a practical hands-on guide to getting kids involved in social action. It provides lots of tips and activities.
Civic Achievement Award Program (available for check-out)
Close Up Foundation
This guide helps students learn more about their country and better understand what it means to be a citizen. It provides hands-on activities to use with students to develop a learn project, a research project or a civic project.
Building Bridges to Citizenship (available for check-out)
This book explains how to create successful intergenerational Citizenship programs.
Sharing and Learning (available for check-out)
National Helpers Network
This book gives service-learning ideas by subject area: health and medicine, environment, communication and the arts, and citizenship.
Take Action! A Guide to Active Citizenship (available for check-out)
Marc Kielburger and Craig Kielburger
This is a wonderful hands-on, easy to use book to get kids involved in changing their world. It gives information about how to get started (how to use the telephone, hold a meeting, write a petition, etc.), where you can get involved and lists many social issues to get involved with (human rights, children’s rights, environment, hunger, poverty, HIV/AIDS, Peace).
50 Ways to a Safer World (available for check-out)
Patricia Occhiuzzo Giggans and Barrie Levy
This books provides everyday actions you can take to prevent violence in neighborhoods, schools, and communities.
The 26% Youth Solution (available for check-out)
Wendy Schaetzel Lesko and Emanuel Tsourounis
This book shows how young people can succeed at getting decision-makers, from school principals to their state senators, to respond to their ideas for change.
A Student’s Guide to Volunteering (available for check-out)
Theresa Digeronimo
This book is a guide for teens to volunteering. It offers information about six fields of public service: education, environment, health care, the needy, politics, and substance abuse.
What You Can Do For Your Country (available for check-out)
Report of the Commission on National and Community Service
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.
Civics for Democracy (available for check-out)
Ralph Nader
This book is a guide for students and teachers to become active citizens. It provides a history, techniques for participation and student activities.