Social Consciousness
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Hoot Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site. ALA Best Books for Young Adults: 2003, ALA Notable Children's Books: 2003, John Newbery Honor Books: 2003 Burrowing Owl, Owls, Environmental Protection, Florida |
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Ida B: - and her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly)
Save the World In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school. Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominees: 2006, Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Books: 2004, SLJ Best Books for Children: 2004, Parents' Choice Gold Award: 2004, Booklist Editor's Choice: 2004 Nature, Cancer, Orchards, Schools |
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The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place Upon leaving an oppressive summer camp, twelve-year-old Margaret Rose Kane spearheads a campaign to preserve three unique towers her grand uncles have been building in their back yard for over forty years. Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice: 2004, Texas: Lone Star Reading List: 2006, Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Books: 2004, SLJ Best Books for Children: 2004, ALA Best Books for Young Adults: 2005, ALA Notable Children's Books: 2005 Social Action, Individuality, Uncles, Hungarian Americans |
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Rules of the Road Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father. Golden Kite Award: 1998 Stores - Retail, Old Age, Automobile Driving, Alcoholism, Texas |
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Going Going In San Antonio, Texas, sixteen-year-old Florrie leads her friends and a new boyfriend in a campaign which supports small businesses and protests the effects of chain stores. Political Activists, Small Businesses, San Antonio |
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Firestorm After learning that he has been sent from the future for a special purpose, eighteen-year-old Jack receives help from an unusual dog and a shape-shifting female fighter. Publishers Weekly starred review, School Library Journal starred review Space and Time, Ecology, Dogs, Science Fiction |
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Flush With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home. Texas: Lone Star Reading List: 2007, NY Times Notable Children's Books: 2005, ALA Notable Children's Books: 2006, ALA Best Books for Young Adults: 2006, ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers: 2006 Environmental Protection, River Boats, Fathers, Florida |
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The Gospel According to Larry Seventeen-year-old Josh, a loner-philosopher who wants to make a difference in the world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the author of a web site that is receiving national attention. ALA Best Books for Young Adults: 2002, ALA Popular Paperbacks: 2005 Websites, Identity, Fame, Coming of Age: |
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So Yesterday Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture. ALA Best Books for Young Adults: 2005, Texas: Tayshas Reading List: 2006 Missing persons, Adventures and Adventurers, Mystery and Detective Stories |
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Ask Me No Questions Fourteen-year-old Nadira, her sister, and their parents leave Bangladesh for New York City, but the expiration of their visas and the events of September 11, 2001, bring frustration, sorrow, and terror for the whole family. Booklist Editor's Choice: 2006, ALA Notable Children's Books: 2007, ALA Best Books for Young Adults: 2007 Illegal Aliens, Bangladeshi Americans, Family Life - New York State, High Schools |
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Bucking the Sarge Luther T. Farrel has got to get out of Flint, Michigan. As his best friend Sparky says, "Flint's nothing but the Titanic." And his mother, a.k.a. the Sarge, says, "Take my advice and stay off the sucker path." ALA Best Books for Young Adults: 2005, ALA Notable Children's Books: 2005, Tayshas Reading List: 2006, SLJ Best Books for Children Business Enterprises, Fraud, Group Homes, Mothers, People with Mental Disabilities, African Americans |
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The Last Dragon Struggling to survive in a post apocalyptic world after his village is destroyed, Yorsh, the earth's last elf, must embark on a perilous quest to decipher a powerful prophecy and find the last dragon, who holds the key to saving the world from the Dark Age that has begun. Horn Book Fanfare: 2006, Mildred L. Batchelder Honor: 2007, ALA Notable Children's Books: 2007 Dragons, Fantasy |
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Wringer As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it. Carolyn W. Field Award: 1998, John Newbery Honor Books: 1998 Courage, Violence, Pigeons |
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The Kid's Guide to Social Action: How to Solve the Social Problems
You Choose -- And Turn Creative Thinking into Positive Action Resource guide for children for learning political action skills that can help them make a difference in solving social problems at the community, state, and national levels. Social Problems - Handbooks, Social Action, Political Participation, Problem Solving, Social Action |
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Catch the Spirit: Teen Volunteers Tell How They Made a Difference In first-person accounts, this book allows students to relate the stories behind their volunteer projects that led to national recognition. Voluntarism, Teenage Volunteers in Social Service |
List updated April 2007 - Alison O'Reilly
