"This book engages with an integrative framework of literacy acceleration and critical social action." (PsycCritiques, 09/06/2007)

"This is the book educators have been waiting for: practitioner guidance on combining literacy education and community problem solving to create a powerful form of service-learning in which students can master critical academic and civic competencies."
—Betsey McGee, former senior program officer, Academy for Educational Development

"An excellent book, celebrating and demonstrating practical social action approaches that support children and young people to make change happen in their schools, in their communities, and in their lives. A timely and vital challenge to educationalists in formal and informal settings on both sides of the Atlantic, invigorating education for empowerment and social change, showing that citizenship can only be learned through doing."
—Bill Badham, development officer, The National Youth Agency (England)

"A perfect combination of inspiration and practical advice. Chock-full of ideas and activities that eat away a sense of powerlessness and turn angst into action."
—Wendy Saul, professor of education and international studies, University of Missouri—St. Louis