$10.00 + free shipping + an investment in powerful youth voices = the perfect holiday gift!
What better way to light the season than with books filled with stories, images, and essays from youth across the globe! For $10.00 and FREE SHIPPING we are offering each of these popular Next Generation Press titles as holiday gifts.
Your purchase pays multiple dividends. You receive a stunning example of "powerful learning with public purpose," to keep or give away. The youth whose work is featured feel like stars. And the proceeds are reinvested to support new WKCD projects—or, in the case of In Our Village: Kambi ya Simba Through the Eyes of Its Youth, scholarships so that students in a remote Tanzanian village can attend post-secondary school.
Next Generation Press is the publishing imprint of WKCD (What Kids Can Do, Inc.), an international nonprofit organization focused on bringing public attention to the accomplishments and contributions of young people. Our titles feature voices of youth as a powerful force for justice, understanding, and social change. From rural China to the heart of New York, young people speak here on issues that matter deeply to them.
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CRISIS AND HOPE: Youth Turn a Lens on the World Written in Chinese or Japanese, the word “crisis” consists of two characters: one representing crisis or danger, the other representing hope or opportunity. In the spring of 2009, WKCD invited youth worldwide to show us, through their own eyes, what troubles them and gives them hope in their close-by world—whether a deeply etched slum in East Africa or a well-off suburb in the northwestern United States. Across four continents and sixteen countries, young people responded to our call by sending their photos and captions—crisp, light, dark. This volume gathers their acute perspectives into a compelling whole. (September 2010) |
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IN OUR VILLAGE: Kambi ya Simba Through the Eyes of Its Youth The rural village of Kambi ya Simba, near the famed Serengeti Plains, is among the world’s poorest; with no electricity or running water, families eke a living from the soil. Students at its secondary school went out with digital cameras and notepads to document daily village life in this remarkable book. Their images and stories speak of resilience as much as hardship, and surprises fill every page. (July 2006) |
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HIP DEEP: Opinion, Essays, and Vision from American Teenagers This groundbreaking anthology presents the freshest young writers and thinkers—age 19 and under—on important issues of our time. From ethnic relations to individual identity, international politics to voting rights, divorce to gay marriage, standardized testing to popular culture, these authors tackle the subjects they care about most. Hip Deep collects its youth voices from many sources: editorials, radio journals, essays, commentary, spoken word, web articles, and more. (April 2006) |
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FORTY-CENT TIP: Stories of New York City Immigrant Workers In these extraordinary black-and-white photographs and essays, students new to America present first-person stories of the working lives of immigrants from their New York City neighborhoods. A research project at three small high schools for newcomers in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens, it evokes enormous respect for both youth and adults who arrive here to start new lives with little but courage and grit. (February 2006) |
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PASS IT ON: Interviews by Youth with Mentors That Matter You don’t have to call yourself a mentor to pass it on ... In this inspiring book of interviews and photographs, youth honor the ordinary adults who reach out to them in everyday but extraordinary ways. Their national “Mentors that Matter” project shows the profound effects on both teenagers and adults when all kinds of people—not just parents and teachers—take time to connect, converse, and care about young people. (April 2008) |
