Volunteerism in Teen Fiction

The Language Inside by Holly Thompson

• Pub Date: 2013
• Middle and high school interest
• See also: Poetry 
• Emma volunteers at a long-term care center where she reads poetry to a patient. 

How to Build a House by Dana Reinhardt

• Pub Date: 2008
• High school interest 
• See also: Divorce 
• Harper spends her summer helping rebuild a house with a charity organization. 

If Birds Fly Back by Carlie Sorosiak

• Pub Date: 2017
• High school interest
• See also: Post High School, Multiple Narrators, Long Lost Parents
• Sebastian and Linny are both volunteering in a nursing home for the summer where they get to know a famous reclusive writer thought to be dead.