Social Activism & Volunteering - Teens

A powerful guidebook for healing and resistance for young girls and gender-expansive youth of color on how to unite, heal, protect, and lead their communities.Turn Up For Freedom helps youth leaders hone their skills to build personal, emotional, and collective freedom. It centers youth...

Ela, short for Rafaela, is a teenager attending her second year of high school. She's overwhelmed by being foreign in a new country, with a new language and new people. She knew life would change but didn't know how she would have to fight...

Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast blame on the innocent, win elections, disguise intent, create chaos, and gain power and wealth. Big lies are as old as civilization. They corrupt public understanding and discourse, turn science upside...

The Young Adult Leadership Training (YALT) manual provides churches and community groups with a tool for ages 14 - 26 that helps develop leadership skills, life skills, spiritual growth opportunities, and community service projects. This dynamic, interactive ministry model designed and developed by Barbara...

Encourage teens to learn about the water crisis and take action to protect and restore local waterways. Whether it's in a drinking glass, flowing downstream, or miles underground, water is everywhere. And it's essential for life on Earth. But our water planet is in...

Centering Black voices and the narratives of enslaved people, this young adult history offers a thoroughly researched account with first-hand testimonies of how people in bondage were themselves a driving force behind their own emancipation. Features a new introduction by Robin D. G. Kelley,...

A handbook that introduces Black youth to family history and genetic genealogy. Culturally sensitive, engaging, and filled with activities, this book is a "must-have" for any young African American looking to begin their genealogical journey.Author: Aungelic NelsonISBN-10: 8986526743ISBN-13: 9798986526744Publisher: Panafrigen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2022Pages: 166Format:...

The United States has a long history of bias and discrimination based on race. This is called racial injustice. This book covers the history of racial injustice, key moments in fighting it, and what can be done to end it in the future.Author: Mary...

Throughout history, women have faced discrimination and oppression from men. From centuries ago to today, women have fought back against these injustices. This book covers the history of injustice against women, key moments in fighting it, and what can be done to end it...

Immigrants and refugees often face bias and discrimination when coming to a new country. This is called immigrant and refugee injustice. This book covers the history of immigrant and refugee injustice, key moments in fighting it, and what can be done to end it...

Climate change and pollution harm some groups more than others. This is called climate and environmental injustice. This book covers the history of climate and environmental injustice, key moments in fighting it, and what can be done to end it in the future.Author: Gail...

Teens throughout the world are taking a stand on a variety of societal issues that matter to them. Teen Activists: Youth Changing the World introduces readers to some of these young people, the issues that motivate them, the challenges they face, their activities and...

Racial bias, particularly implicit racial bias, is an insidious harm affecting people of color in virtually every area of life. This book examines the factors that give rise to implicit racial bias, the damage it causes, whether we can change, and what we can...

The Black Lives Matter movement is a modern social and political campaign that seeks to highlight racial inequality and end police violence against Black Americans. Through a narrative-driven pro/con format--supported by relevant facts, quotes, anecdotes, and full-color illustrations--this book examines issues related to the...

This urgent book explores the roots of racism and its legacy in modern day, all while empowering young people with actionable ways they can help foster a better world and become antiracists. Why are white supremacists still openly marching in the United States? Why...

An argument for bold action to halt climate destruction, adapted for young people from Andreas Malm's best-selling book Young people are inheriting a world of climate catastrophe. Young people are also one of the strongest forces leading movements for climate justice, and to halt...

You can take a stand for justice. You can raise your voice to make a difference. You can find your way to make a mark and change the world. But first--you need to know what the actual F is going on in it. Today's...

Are you ready to change the world? The eleven teen activists in this book were! Tomorrow Begins Now: Teen Heroes Who Faced Down Injustice tells the inspiring stories of activists fighting for their civil rights and liberties while still in their teens.These stories, spanning...

Teen Innovators tells the stories of discovery and the inventions of nine young students. For example, twelve-year-old Gitanjali Rao, appalled by the tragedy in Flint, Michigan, found a cheaper, more effective way to test for lead in drinking water. Four undocumented teenagers from an...

Teen Innovators tells the stories of discovery and the inventions of nine young students. For example, twelve-year-old Gitanjali Rao, appalled by the tragedy in Flint, Michigan, found a cheaper, more effective way to test for lead in drinking water. Four undocumented teenagers from an...

Get inside the head of Michelle Obama: author, lawyer, humanitarian, and the trailblazing first Black woman to serve as First Lady of the United States.This collection of quotes has been carefully curated from Michelle Obama's numerous public statements--interviews, books, social media posts, television appearances,...

A thought book and actionable guide for Jewish teens who want to make a difference in the world.Teens are changing the world.Teen leaders are dreaming, planning, and raising the social consciousness of those around them. They are questioning the status quo, using technology to...

"Told with rich vivid detail and mesmerizing language that inexorably propels the reader to the end." - Lesego Malepe, Author On a winter's day in 1968, in a town in South Africa, a nineteen-year-old medical student changed the course of his country's history. Steve...

Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast blame on the innocent, win elections, disguise intent, create chaos, and gain power and wealth. Big lies are as old as civilization. They corrupt public understanding and discourse, turn science upside...

Get inside the head of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, history's second woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice.This collection of quotes has been curated from Ruth Bader Ginsburg's numerous public statements--interviews, court opinions, oral arguments from her time as a lawyer, speeches, and more....

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Recommended by Oprah's Book Club, ESSENCE, We Need Diverse Books, ellentube, Brit + Co, PureWow, Teen Vogue, Time, New York, USA TODAY, and TODAY.com Also available: This Book Is Anti-Racist Journal, a guided journal with more than 50 activities...

**Winner of the 2020 Nautilus GOLD Award for YA Nonfiction** "Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With determined purpose and moral clarity, Jamie is pushing political leaders to develop...

"This book is a guide for every young person who believes in a better world for all"--Malala Yousafzai Adults are aware of their universal human rights of freedom and equality, but children often are ignorant of the rights they possess before reaching the age...

"This book is a guide for every young person who believes in a better world for all"--Malala Yousafzai Adults are aware of their universal human rights of freedom and equality, but children often are ignorant of the rights they possess before reaching the age...

Be the change in your community! This illustrated guide takes you through challenges the world is facing and how you and your kids can help overcome them. Aspiring activists and young community leaders need information and tools to be responsible citizens and changemakers in...

In the past, being a "difficult bitch" was bad. Girls weren't supposed to call people out for their BS, stand up for themselves, or do their own thing......not anymore! This book embraces the insult with irreverent humor, encouraging readers to be themselves no matter...

Empower yourself in today's highly connected, socially conscious world as you learn how to wield your passions, digital tools, and the principles of social entrepreneurship to affect real change in your schools, communities, and beyond. At age eleven, Jessica Markowitz learned that girls in...

The climate crisis is the issue of our time. Scientists have warned for over 100 years that burning fossil fuels and destroying nature will warm the earth's atmosphere and affect the climate in adverse ways: more severe and intense storms, prolonged heat waves, drought,...

What does it mean to resist? Throughout our nation's history, discrimination and unjust treatment of all kinds have prompted people to make their objections and outrage known. Some protests involve large groups of people, marching or holding signs with powerful slogans. Others start with...

It's time to express yourself and change the world, one sticker at a time. This empowering book includes 200 tear?resistant vinyl stickers for feminists with a cause. Illustrated by an amazing--and diverse--sisterhood of young artists, these stickers celebrate the fearless messages and icons of...

What does it mean to resist? Throughout our nation's history, discrimination and unjust treatment of all kinds have prompted people to make their objections and outrage known. Some protests involve large groups of people, marching or holding signs with powerful slogans. Others start with...

In the past, being a "difficult bitch" was bad. Girls weren't supposed to call people out for their BS, stand up for themselves, or do their own thing......not anymore! This book embraces the insult with irreverent humor, encouraging readers to be themselves no matter...

The First Amendment guarantees the right to peacefully protest and Americans have embraced this right for nearly two centuries. Protest: A History of Social Movements in America focuses on the people who faced adversity while speaking out for women's suffrage, Black civil rights, the...

You're never too young to change the worldDo you want to help animals but are not sure how? Or maybe you are already helping animals and want to do more. Whether you're seven years old or seventeen, Saving Animals: A Future Activist's Guide -...

The first all-encompassing history of today's global student activism movement. Student resistance in the first decade of the 21st century was the single most powerful liberating force around the globe during those years. Challenging governments--in a few cases, overturning governments--at a time when representational...

From helping at a homeless shelter to helping make sure an area gets enough funding to support its homeless population, there are many ways to volunteer for the homeless. Some people organize events that gather donations for the homeless, while others help serve homeless...

From picking up trash to marching for environmental change, there are many ways to volunteer for the environment. Some people care for gardens at local parks, while others help educate visitors at national parks about the importance of caring for nature. Volunteering for the...

From helping an elderly neighbor to comforting people in their last days, there are many ways to volunteer for the elderly. Some people lead activities at assisted living places or nursing homes, while others simply sit and chat with residents. Volunteering for the Elderly...

The stirring history of global student activism during the second decade of the 21st century--up to and including the Black Lives Matter movement and the extraordinary events of 2020. Student resistance in the second decade of the 21st century has increased in both quantity...

From helping people find their way at a hospital to supporting those struggling with mental health issues, there are many ways to volunteer in health care. Some people help physical therapists so the therapists can better support patients, while others cheer up children in...

Deciding not to support a person or corporation you find objectionable is nothing new, but recently, this practice has made headlines and been rebranded as cancel culture. This may be attributed to the #MeToo movement and political divisiveness prevalent in the United States at...

Deciding not to support a person or corporation you find objectionable is nothing new, but recently, this practice has made headlines and been rebranded as "cancel culture." This may be attributed to the #MeToo movement and political divisiveness prevalent in the United States at...

On April 22, 1970, an estimated twenty million people held in a teach-in to show their support for environmental protections. This new celebration, Earth Day, brought together previously fragmented issues under the same banner. It was the largest nationwide event ever, and lawmakers took...

From helping homeless pets to assisting injured wildlife, there are many ways to volunteer with animals. Some people help scientists track wild animal populations, while others help zoos teach people about the importance of conservation. Volunteering for Animal Welfare examines different volunteer opportunities and...

Are you looking for an ideal coloring book for your teen girl? This coloring book for Teens contains over 35 pages of unique illustrations to enjoy coloring.Teen Coloring Book includes a mixture of detailed pictures oriented on Teens' preferences, which would provide hours of...