life in the process. This book offers a wise and varied assortment of suggestions, including such simple things as teaching a child a new skill to more complex possibilities like social and civic activism. With its positive and helpful message and tone, it works to break through hopelessness, apathy, and skepticism and says to the reader: "There really are countless things that you as a young person can do that will make a difference in peoples' lives and in your own life. And you can begin doing this today!"

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