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Product Description The Service Learning Bookshelf, second edition, has descriptions of 171 nonfiction, picture books, and novels selected to enhance your service learning activities. Includes sections on What is Service Learning? and Using the Service Learning Bookshelf to strengthen your classroom and program activities. Read the interviews of five outstanding authors. Books open doors to questions, answers, discussion, writing, thinking and doing. Stories prepare students to help in their communities in many ways— to interact with the elderly, improve the environment, assist people who are homeless or hungry, help with literacy, plant and maintain gardens, or understand about special needs and disabilities, AIDS, diversity, immigration, or endangered animals. The Bookshelf has titles that: - describe the service experience of others - introduce important social themes - tell stories from our history - increase student interest in reading - promote critical thinking and discussion - prepare students to interact with diverse populations - inspire students to serve Includes book titles by these outstanding authors: ALMA FLOR ADA JOSEPH BRUCHAC PATRICIA POLACCO ALLEN SAY WALTER DEAN MYERS EVE BUNTING Review "I am ordering five more to share with teachers in other states. An excellent resource also for librarians, teachers, parents." -- Joey Hoffman, "Retired" Teacher, Maryland"The Bookshelf can kids turn learning into action, to contribute something, to cement their experience into lifelong pride." -- Michael, J. Rosen, Author"This handy compendium of literature enriches students' service learning. A valuable contribution to the burgeoning field of service learning." -- Joe Follman, Executive Director, Florida Learn & ServeDivided by topic and grade level, annotated, and enriched with author interviews, this is a valuable contribution to service learning. -- Joe Follman, Executive Director, Florida Learn & Serve, Florida Campus CompactTeachers