Our Books

The very first anthology from Learning for a Cause!

Although out of print, this book will always be dear to our hearts at Learning for a Cause. This was the volume that started it all and contains some of the best 'slices of life' vignettes yet produced! A book to be read again and again, its legacy will surely endure.

Out of Print.

IF: The Anthology is a collection of poetry, essays, short fiction and plays concerning various aspects of social justice such as poverty, war, violence, prejudice, racism and homelessness.

This volume contains a special introduction by legendary Canadian artist Alex Colville and is illustrated by Learning for a Cause students. A classic response to our world's most pressing issues, this book put Learning for a Cause on the map attracting attention from national media.

Out of Print.

Down to Earth with Roberta Bondar and Justin Trudeau is perhaps 'the' most celebrated collection of work from Learning for a Cause. This book offers a rare opportunity to explore how the looming environmental crisis affects us emotionally - taking a normally abstract scientific topic and making it intimately personal to us all. Down to Earth attracted endorsements from celebrities David Suzuki, Farley Mowat and Martin Sheen. Two years after its release the book is still circulating widely in Canadian schools thanks to a generous grant from Metro Inc.

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Raising Humanity with Martin Sheen and Marc Garneau is a collection of poetry by more than 125 students with guest student writers from NYC's Metropolitan Corporate Academy.

This collection was written in response to the question, "What is it to be human?" The students certainly rose to the occasion and produced a powerful glimpse into the raw materials of the human condition. Raising Humanity is a tour de force in student publications.

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Flash is a collection of 'flash fiction' from our partner school John F. Kennedy in Montreal.

Edited by teacher Vani Sood, this book, set to release in May, promises to be a poignant glimpse into the youthful imagination. This book is an important accomplishment for this school as it collects remarkable writing from more than 50 special education students.

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Together was released in 2009 by our partner school Lennoxville Elementary in Lennoxville Quebec.

This book is a collection of work by more than 60 grade three students exploring what it is to be a community. The moral so eloquently illustrated in this collection is - "Together we can do anything".

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21st Century Communities is a 2009 title from our partner school Avonview High in Windsor, Nova Scotia.

When grade 12 students asked, "What defines a community in the 21st century?" their teacher didn't presume to know the answer. The question prompted the students to create a Youth Inquiry Project and explore the idea of a 21st century community for themselves. This book is their answer.

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We Who Listened is a collection of student responses in response to the life-story of Holocaust survivor Alex Levin and his memoir, "Under the Yellow and Red Stars".

More than fifty students give us an intimate peek into their thoughts as they make their way through this atrocity in world history.

Engaging our imagination and joining our emotions with historic events is key in increasing our understanding of things which we can never experience. The closer we can come to understanding this historic event, the closer we can come to ensuring that it never happens again.

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Five is the 2010 Anniversary Edition of our annual anthology. It is a collection of the 'best of the best' from the past five years of Learning for a Cause anthologies.

Featuring guest writers Candy Spelling and Drew Hayden Taylor, this volume is sure to make one thing clear - young writers have important things to say. "Be ready to be moved. Be ready to be unsettled. Be ready to see home much our young people care." - Marc Garneau, First Canadian in Space.

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Shades of Us: A Lennoxville Elementary School Anthology is a powerful bilingual anthology that binds together the writings of 41 grade-three students. Through journal entries, poetry, letters and and responses these students express their feelings of love, empathy, compassion and hope. A unique project between Quebec and Haiti, this book will touch all those who read it.

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