A Reading List for Madison Civics Club 2008-2009
Prepared by Staff at Madison Public Library

Jonah Edelman
October 11, 2008

"We're All in This Together or You're On Your Own:
The Answer Will Determine Our Future"

Benson, Peter L.   All Kids Are Our Kids: What Communities Must Do to Raise Caring and Responsible Children and Adolescents.   2nd ed. Jossey-Bass, c2006      649. 10973 B443s2

Copland, Michael A.   Connecting Leadership with Learning: a Framework for Reflection, Planning, and Action. ASCD/Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2006                                         371. 200973 C791c

Kieff, Judith E.   Informed Advocacy in Early Care and Education: Making a Difference for Young Children and Families.     Prentice-Hall, c2008.

Olfman, Sharna, ed.   Childhood Lost: How American Culture Is Failing Our Kids. Praeger Publishers, c2005

Shore, Rima.   What Kids Need: Today's Best Ideas for Nurturing, Teaching, and Protecting Young Children.   Beacon Press, c2002                             649.1 Sh78w

Tammy Baldwin
November 8, 2008

"Federal Efforts to Improve the Quality of Life
For Future Generations"

Casse, Christine K.   Medicare Matters:   What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care.   University of California Press, 2005.                      368. 42600973 C272m

Farmer, Paul.   Pathologies of Power:   Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. University of California Press, 2005.                                             305.569 F229p

Hadler, Nortin M.   Worried Sick:   A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America.      University of North Carolina Press, 2008.                                           362. 10973 H117w

Jasper, Margaret C.   Your Rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act.   Oceana Publications, 2005.                                                                     344. 73012576 J312yo

Margolies, Luisa.   My Mother's Hip:   Lessons from the World of Eldercare.   Temple University Press, 2004.                                                           362.1989700973 M336m

Rubin, Lillian B.   60 on Up: The Truth about Aging in America.   Beacon Press, 2007.305.26 R824s

Steinberg Turiel, Judith.   Our Parents, Ourselves:   How American Health Care Imperils Middle Age and Beyond.   University of California Press, 2005.          362. 60973 T846o

Azadeh Moaveni
February 21, 2009

"Global Culture and American Youth:
What Does It Mean for Our Future?"

Connery, Michael. Youth to Power: How Today's Young Voters are Building Tomorrow's Progressive Majority.   Ig Pub., c2008.                        324.97300842 C762y

Gordinier, Jeff. X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking.   Viking, c2008.                                               305.20973 G652x

Martin, Patricia. RenGen, Renaissance Generation: The Rise of the Cultural Consumer-- and What it Means to Your business.   Platinum Press, c2007               306.30112 M364r

Mason, Matt. The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Reinvented Capitalism.   Free Press, 2008.                                                                                   305.24209045M381p                                                                                       
Moaveni, Azadeh. Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran.   Public Affairs, c2005                        305.4889155073092 M711m

Zakaria, Fareed. The Post-American world.   W.W. Norton & Co., c2008.      303.49 Z13p

Jorja Leap
March 21, 2009

"Grandparents and Homies:
The Surprising Relationships between Older Adults
and Young Gang Members"

Parenting again in Dane County, Wisconsin : A resource guide for grandparents/relatives raising and nurturing dependent children.     Area Agency on Aging of Dane County [and] Grandparents United for Children's Rights, c2002                            362.702577583 P215p

Benning, Lee Edwards.   The Granny-Nanny:   A guide for parents and grandparents who share child care.   Cleveland Clinic Press, 2006.                                   649.1 B439g

Hagedorn, John M.   A world of gangs:   Armed young men and gangsta culture.   University of Minnesota, c2008                                                       364.1066 H12w

Ruiz, Dorothy S.   Amazing Grace:   African American grandmothers as caregivers and conveyors of traditional values.   Praeger, c2004.                  306.874508996073 R859a

Anastasia Goodstein
April 18, 2009

"The Forces Shaping Generation Next"

Frontline.   Growing up Online [DVD].   Produced and directed by Rachel Dretzkin and John Maggio.   WGBH, c2008.                                                           025.04 F928fgo DVD

Goodstein, Anastasia.   Totally Wired:   What Teens and Tweens are Really Doing Online.   St. Martin's Griffin, c2007.                                                                            025.524 G629t

Goodstein, Anastasia.   Ypulse blog site:    http://www.ypulse.com/

Kelsey, Candace M.   Generation MySpace:   Helping Your Teen Survive Online Adolescence.   Marlowe & Company, c2007                       305.235028567 K299g

Levine, Madeline.   The Price of Privilege:   How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids.   HarperCollins, c2006.                                                                      649.156 L578p

Melton, Barbara and Susan Shankle.   What in the World are Your Kids Doing Online?   How to Understand the Electronic World Your Children Live In.   Broadway Books, c2007.                                                                                                          004.69 M495w

Willard, Nancy E.   Cyber-safe Kids, Cyber-savvy Teens:   Helping Young People Learn to Use the Internet Safely and Responsibly.   Jossey-Bass, c2007.            025.04 W

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Prepared by librarians at Madison Public Library for the Fall 2008--Spring 2009 programs of the Madison Civics Club.