The Service Learning Bookshelf : A Bibliography of Fiction & Nonfiction to Inspire Student Learning and Action, Second Edition

by Cathryn Berger Kaye

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

54 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Cathryn Berger Kaye, M.A., is an international service learning consultant and a former classroom teacher. She works with state departments of education, university faculty and students, school districts, and classroom teachers on a variety of education issues such as service learning, civic responsibility, student leadership, and respectful school communities.