The Service Learning Bookshelf
A Bibliography of Fiction & Nonfiction to Inspire Student Learning and Action
By Cathryn Berger Kaye

THE SERVICE LEARNING BOOKSHELF 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

• ALMA FLOR ADA
• JOSEPH BRUCHAC
• PATRICIA POLACCO
• ALLEN SAY
• WALTER DEAN MYERS
• EVE BUNTING

"At last there is a handy compendium of literature teachers can use to enhance their students’ service learning. Divided by topic and grade level, annotated, and enriched with author interviews, this publication is a valuable contribution to the burgeoning field of service learning. I’ll be sending it to service learning projects throughout Florida."
- Joe Follman, Executive Director
Florida Learn and Serve

"Struggling with implementing standards-based education? This bibliography can help you consider how children's books with social themes may provide the necessary link between service experiences and the goals and objectives of your state or local standards for student learning. Practitioners searching for tools to implement service learning as part of standards-based education will find the BOOKSHELF to be a wonderful resource."
- Nelda Brown, Executive Director
The State Education Agency K-12,
Service-Learning Network

BY CATHRYN BERGER KAYE
a National Service Learning Consultant, who integrates her love of books into service learning workshops across the country. Her conference presentations and seminars for classroom teachers and university faculty have benefited students in many states, including California, Florida, Texas, Maryland, and the Cherokee Nation. She is the author of The Service Learning Bookshelf, Service Learning--Raising Service Projects to the Next Level, Parent Involvement in Service Learning, and Word Works -- Why the Alphabet is a Kid's Best Friend (Little, Brown & Company).

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