Protecting the Environment: Opportunities to Volunteer (Community Service for Teens) [Hardcover]

Bernard Ryan Jr. (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Gr 7 Up--These titles will answer YAs' questions about what to expect when they volunteer. Each book begins with the same summary of teen volunteerism statistics, and then focuses on what it takes to work in a specific field. Ryan describes some of the projects young people have taken on, from helping to design exhibits at a natural history museum to riding along on a fire truck, and explains how both the teens and the organizations can benefit. Contact names and phone numbers are appended. The tone is uniformly upbeat, emphasizing the benefits of volunteering and only briefly touching on potential problems or frustrations. Unfortunately, the black-and-white photographs are of inconsistent quality, and more of the interviews are with adult coordinators than with the teens themselves. Still, readers who need a general summary of volunteer opportunities will find these books helpful, as will those who live where community service is required for high school graduation.

Miranda Doyle, Notre Dame High School, Belmont, CA

Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 13 and up
  
• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: Ferguson Pub (January 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0894342282
• ISBN-13: 978-0894342288
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,024,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bernard Ryan, Jr. has written, ghost-written, or co-authored 36 published books, including seven biographies, eight books on voluntary community service for teenage readers, and three books introducing young parents to their children's kindergarten year. His Tyler's Titanic is a 104-page chapter book for young readers that tells how a boy and his dog find a way to visit the great wreck and interact with actual passengers and crew. His The Poisoned Life of Mrs. Maybrick is the biography of an American woman who was the principal in one of history's great murder trials and whose English husband, according to recent research, may have been Jack the Ripper. Mr. Ryan is the author of 100 descriptions (each from 1,200 to 8,000 words) of important historical courtroom trials (U.S. and worldwide, ranging from the ancient Greek Alcibiades to the Lindbergh kidnapping and O.J. Simpson) published in four major reference books. He has also written many magazine and newspaper pieces. He spent many years writing advertising for national brands and retired as Senior Vice President, Public Affairs, at the American Association of Advertising Agencies. He is a graduate of The Rectory School, Kent School, and Princeton University, and lives in Southbury, Connecticut. He and his wife, Jean Bramwell Ryan, have two daughters and two grandchildren.