In one after-school program, middle-school students mentor and tutor younger children.

Via a special partnership, schoolchildren help professionals train assistance dogs for people with disabilities. At a community farm, families plant, grow, and harvest produce for soup kitchens and charities.

Real kids make a real difference in their communities in this vibrantly photographed chronicle by George Ancona.

• By highlighting young people experiencing what it is like to give back, the book encourages volunteerism from a young age. 
• George Ancona's photographs capture the joy in helping out. 
• Kids working together for a greater good is a theme that carries across this book and It's Our Garden.