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Service learning can be so much more than picking up trash or cleaning up graffiti?although both are great places to start. A treasury of activities, ideas, and resources, this eloquent, exhilarating guide can help teachers and youth workers engage young hearts and minds in reaching out and giving back. Author Cathryn Berger Kaye, an educational workshop leader, speaker, and former classroom teacher, presents service learning?its importance, steps, essential elements, and challenges?within a curricular context. Chapters cover a variety of common service-learning themes including animals, the environment, hunger and homelessness, community safety, literacy, and social justice. Each includes inspiring quotations, background information and resources, preparation activities, real-life examples, and ideas that have worked for other teachers. ?Bookshelf? sections describe nearly 300 books that offer teachable moments about service learning, responsibility, caring, and helping, as w