Adventure of Adolescence, (The): Middle School Students and Community Service

This book presents seven case studies of middle school youth service programs that challenge their participants to change from takers to givers and from observers to active members of the community. A tutoring program is described in which Hispanic at-risk middle school students tutor Hispanic at-risk elementary school students. A program that helps keep middle school youth from being recruited into gangs is also highlighted, as are programs that bring youth into nursing homes to enrich the lives of the elderly and to increase the understanding of the old by the young; involve junior high school students in community service projects; and place students in a school based community service program.