Heroism project.

March 20, 2009 10:07 AM

Anyone know where I might find collections of personal accounts of private heroism/ bravery of groups of children or teenagers? Also, please feel free to share your story here if you have one or know of one.
posted by hellboundforcheddar to Grab Bag (6 answers total)

Every issue of Boy's Life magazine contains a true story of some Scout doing the right thing - rescuing someone, using first aid, and so on.
posted by jquinby at 10:44 AM on March 20, 2009

First They Killed My Father

A personal account of a girl who suffers during the Khmer Rouge. Not really a group, but she has several brothers and sisters that are with her during parts of the story. Really well written and heartbreaking.
posted by meta87 at 10:45 AM on March 20, 2009

Here's one of many stories about how some Boy Scouts helped their fellow scouts when a tornado hit their camp last summer.
posted by Atom12 at 10:50 AM on March 20, 2009

Frank McDonough's Sophie Scholl: The Real Story of the Woman Who Defied Hitler draws in part on Scholl's letters and diaries, as well as the transcripts of her interrogation by the Gestapo.

Scholl and her brother Hans were teenagers when they helped to found the White Rose. A selection from their letters and diaries has been published - it's out of print and pricey, but WorldCat has it at quite a few libraries.
posted by ryanshepard at 11:02 AM on March 20, 2009

Hmm, I definitely remember the magazines I read as a kid had articles every month highlighting kid heroes - where they were from and what they'd done. Some of them had saved lives, others did impressive community service work (like saving local institutions from closure) or environmentalism, so on and so forth. We're talking brief mini-interviews/profiles - I don't know if that's personal enough for you. If it is, the magazine I can remember is 3-2-1 Contact/Contact Kids (it retitled itself), which ran from 1980-2001. You may be able to find it in a library somewhere still.
posted by bettafish at 11:03 AM on March 20, 2009

A child in charge of '6 babies'

This story has stayed with me ever since I read it.
posted by snowleopard at 11:20 AM on March 20, 2009 [1 favorite]