Make Your Mark, Make a Difference
A Kid's Guide to Standing Up for People, Animals, and the Planet
Portland, Oregon : Beyond Words ; New York : Aladdin, 2024.
Format: Book
Edition: Beyond Words/Aladdin edition.
Description: pages cm
"Kids today are more aware than ever of the issues that impact people, animals, and the planet, but getting involved can be an overwhelming prospect. Make Your Mark, Make a Difference: A Kid's Guide to Standing Up for People, Animals, and the Planet provides middle grade readers with tools to help them become informed and effective activists with an approach that offers hope and perspective. From Black Lives Matter to climate change, the book leads readers through an overview of issues, essential human rights background, and stories of how other young activists tackle local, national, and international problems. Readers will discover a multitude of ways to build change and learn that every contribution matters"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Part 1. Examine your world. Powerless or powerful?: Thinking like an activist -- Smart start: Choosing causes to defend -- Ready, set, action!: Putting your personal powers to work.
Part 2. Animal and earth issues. Justice for animals: Looking out for wildlife, farm animals, and pets -- We have one planet: Safeguarding the environment -- Sky-high activism: Keeping outer space and earth safe.
Part 3. People issues. Threats and violence: Bringing peace to our world -- Communities: ensuring equality -- Poverty and its partners: Boosting income, supporting health, and ensuring education.
Part 4. Change is everywhere. Change through the arts: Using creativity to spotlight issues -- Keep going: Accepting the pace of progress and staying.
Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
Part 2. Animal and earth issues. Justice for animals: Looking out for wildlife, farm animals, and pets -- We have one planet: Safeguarding the environment -- Sky-high activism: Keeping outer space and earth safe.
Part 3. People issues. Threats and violence: Bringing peace to our world -- Communities: ensuring equality -- Poverty and its partners: Boosting income, supporting health, and ensuring education.
Part 4. Change is everywhere. Change through the arts: Using creativity to spotlight issues -- Keep going: Accepting the pace of progress and staying.
Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
Subjects:
Social change -- Juvenile literature.
Social action -- Juvenile literature.
Social action.
Social change.
Social change -- Juvenile literature.
Social action -- Juvenile literature.
Social action.
Social change.
Target Audience: Ages 10 and up
ISBN:
9781582708454
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C SOCIAL SCI Gal | Main (Downtown) | Children's NonFiction | Out (Due: 6/20/2024) |
Includes bibliographical references.