| Volunteer_Canada Connects youth with community service organizations throughout Canada and provides online volunteer resources. [English and French] |
| Youth_Service_America Volunteer opportunities in all 50 states. Enter a zip code and find organizations in that area needing help. Provides details of membership, forthcoming events, and newsletter. |
| Celebrity,_Sports_and_Style_Photo_Galleries Photos of celebs in movies, television, music and sports along with celebrity news and gossip. |
| Stars Celebrity photos, interviews, gossip, blogs and more -- just for kids. |
| TeenSite_Net Meet others, get advice, and talk about anything. |
| Çocuk_Pınarı Oyunlar, hikayeler, sesli masallar ve dinî bilgiler içeriyor. |
| Kizclub__Trees Listen and read along to this story about trees. |
| PBS_Kids__Tree,_Tree,_Tree Sing along to this song with Mister Rogers. |
| Trees_-_A_Colorful_Look_At_Our_Forest A book of pictures to print out and color. Includes information by the Florida Forestry Association. [PDF] |
| Trees_Are_Terrific__Travels_with_Pierre Listen and read along to find out about trees. Includes animated pictures. |
| A_Walk_in_the_Woods Listen to the story and look at the photos. |
| Ace_Detectives Join in the Adventures of the Ace Detectives, involving four teenagers from Australia, as they solve mysteries from around the world. |
| The_Adventures_of_Sydney An interactive story about Sydney, a young girl in search of her lost cat. |
| Allen_Morgan_On-line Offers free on-line children's stories by Canadian author Allen Morgan. New stories every two weeks. |
| Amazing_Adventure_Series Collection of original, illustrated stories. Read-along in RealAudio. |
| Angus_the_Tartan_Goat_and_Other_Scottish_Stories Animated children's stories. Read by Gordon Nicol in a rich Scottish accent. |
| Athropolis__Home_of_the_Throps_and_the_Squallhoots When three children land upon an iceberg - they meet Throps and the Squallhoots. |
| Avery_Hill_Bedtime_Stories Selection of illustrated children's bedtime stories suitable for many ages. |
| Beebo_in_DeliLand Offers stories on Beebo, a small boy who lives in DeliLand. Kids may also submit their own stories and read about fun activities they can do with their family. There are book reviews and periodic cont |
| Bing_Puddlepot\'s_Instant_Custom_Picture_Book A place where kids can create an illustrated storybook about themselves. Free book may also be printed for offline reading. |
| BookPALS__Storyline Streaming video program featuring famous people reading childrens books aloud. |
| Bootsey\'s_Picnic Children story by Ellen Lebsock about Bootsey who decides to pack a picnic lunch to eat in the garden. |
| Bubble_Dome An interactive children's website, where the user can walk in to a virtual story world, and interact with fun characters. Enter competitions, join the club and solve problems. |
| Candlelight_Stories Offers downloadable illustrated stories, online writing, and pen pals. You can also review your favorite books and games, and learn how animated movies are made. |
| Catnap An online children's art history picture book written and illustrated by Steve Norton. |
| Children\'s_Bedtime_Stories Small collection of bedtime stories for 5- to 11-year-olds. Written by Gordon Dioxide. |
| Children\'s_Stories,_Facts,_and_Recipes Interesting facts, stories, pictures, jokes, and recipes. |
| Children\'s_Storybooks_Online Offers free storybooks by age group. Includes young children, older children, and young s. |
| Circus_World Meet the clown characters who work and live at the circus. Each page explains more about what their world is like. |
| Cybertales Features original stories, jokes, puzzles, games and other activities for fun loving kids. |
| EBD_StoryTeller Over 5,000 stories, jokes and poems submitted by kids all over the world since 1997. Publish your own stories and poetry. |
| e-Me-A-Story Library of electronic picture books. Requires free registration. |
| Faithful_John,_the_Animated_Story_of Faithful John is a story of adventure, magic spells, and faith, based on the children's literature classic by the Brothers Grimm. |
| Farmhouse_Fables Childrens stories and fables from Farmhouse Fables, short storybooks for children. |
| The_Fin_Fur_and_Feather_Bureau_of_Investigation Animal-based government crime fighting agency that battles many foes, most notoriously CRUST and the Cyber Tooth Tigers. Kids ages 8-12 act as self-appointed field agents, filing their own reports to |
| Grandpa_Tucker\'s_Rhymes_and_Tales Lots of silly poems, stories, and songs from Bob Tucker. |
| Grimms\'_Fairy_Tales Texts of many of Grimms' original fairy tales. Includes audio of some of the stories. |
| Halloween!__Halloween! A short story about a spooky holiday. |
| The_Helical_Library Showcase of poetry, stories and works in progress set in a quirky comic fantasy universe. |
| If_You_Love_to_Read Online novel about an American girl who goes to boarding school in England. |
Youth and Politics 2008
“When I first started, I was 14. It can seem so intimidating. You think, ‘I’m so dumb. What difference can I make?’ But it makes such a huge difference, and you can do so much as a 14-, 15-, 16- or 17-year-old. Youth is the driving force behind a lot of campaigns. Young people can do a lot of things that people who are older can’t, just by working hard.” – Beth Foster, Charlottesville, VA
“This is such a historical election on so many different levels. The participation we’re getting with young people, the amount of new voters that have come into play, I mean, it’s all so big. For a very long time…politicians and ca
mpaigns just kind of disregarded the [youth] vote ‘cause it wasn’t something they could count on. I think what has changed was that students acknowledged that problem and said, ‘We need students leading other students, and we need this to be truly student-run and that’s how we’ll make it successful.” – Molly Kawahata, 17, Palo Alto, CA
“Youth in general see politics as something beyond their grasp because they say, ‘Oh, its just in Washington, DC.’ But really, it’s everywhere ‘cause that’s part of a divided government. It’s at every level and it’s on the local level as much as it’s on the national level. And it’s easy to get involved in local government.” – Pryce Hadley, 18, Marquette MI
Click here to read twenty-one profiles of young political activists like these, for links to youtube.org videos and top websites encouraging political participation by youth, and for a collection of recent articles about the youth vote in Election 2008.
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Powerful Learning with Public Purpose
WKCD made its online debut in ‘02 with one goal: to champion “powerful learning with public purpose” by our nation’s adolescents. In the years since, we’ve produced close to 200 stories that show young people—and their allies—combining deep engagement and high achievement. Here are some of the best of these stories, drawn from our WKCD archives.
Project Einstein: A Photo Essay by Young Burmese Refugees
Rarely do those living in refugee camps get to tell firsthand their stories of hardship. Least heard are the perspectives of children, for whom a refugee camp may be the only home they know. In winter 2008, WKCD sponsored two young American media makers who traveled to Bangladesh to capture the lives of youth in a Burmese refugee camp there. At the Kutupalong Camp, Mark Belinsky and Emily Jacobi helped eleven Rohingya (Burmese) children share their world through their own photographs and words.
Beijing Youth Voices: From Friendships to the Olympics
“We Chinese have dreamed of this event for hundreds of years. It has united us.” What does a group of six Beijing high school students have to say about the Beijing Olympics? And what’s their life like as teenagers in new China, where east and west, old and new live side by side? Read their blogs and watch their slideshows.
Youth in Action: Teens Informing Teens
In a storefront on Providence’s south side, ten high school students sit down to a curriculum they won’t find in school: how to promote nonviolent social change. For the next two months, they will learn everything they can about violence prevention and workshop facilitation—and then pass on that knowledge to younger teens. It may seem a titanic task—but that’s just right for these new members of TITAN, one of several peer education programs at Youth In Action.
Practice: What It Takes to Get Good at Something
What does it take to get really good at something? “You need a hater, and you need a motivator,” says Sharese, 16. “A hater, that’s the person that puts you down, assuming you can’t do it, and you try to prove them wrong. And your motivator, that’s who supports you, and so you do your best to try to make them proud.” See what three classes of Chicago public high school students found when they explored the question, “What does it take to get really good at something?”
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