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Jacqueline Woodson is an award-winning children's literature author, who, early in her career, was touted by renowned children's literature scholar Rudine Sims Bishop as one of the most promising children's [...]

During the last few decades, U.S. classrooms have experienced dramatic demographic changes. The 2010 U.S. census report indicates that, considering recent trends in immigration and birth rates, within two decades [...]

MORE FEATURES The work of a teacher often goes beyond the classroom or a teacher's own students. DIVERSIFY TEACHER LEADERSHIP When teachers of color lack social capital, they are less likely to have access to the knowledge needed to gain teacher leader positions. Another participant asserted that teacher leader positions were open to all teachers, regardless of race, ethnicity, and gender, but also noted that earning teacher leader positions was a "popularity contest." Encouraging teachers of color to pursue leadership roles does little to address the lack of diversity among teacher leaders if teachers of color do not have the opportunity to learn teacher leadership in graduate programs. [Extracted from the article]

AbstractPerceptions of middle level learners vary, and unfortunately, some are deficit-oriented, labeling young adolescents as “hormonal” and “erratic” without a deep understanding of their emotional and physical development or the knowledge and skills that they bring to a classroom. In this paper, we provide empirical evidence for this deficit narrative—including the marginalization of middle level learners—from interviews conducted with teacher candidates in elementary, middle, secondary, and K-12 programs in two different states. Three themes around perceptions of teaching middle grades students are shared: adult needs and interests, resistance to student agency, and challenging the deficit narrative. We posit that developing a broader understanding of young adolescents might inform and inspire teacher candidates to choose to become middle school teachers. Thus, we encourage an asset approach to recruitment of middle level teacher candidates entering teacher preparation programs, and we offer recommendations for middle level recruitment into teacher education programs with an explicitly asset lens.

When Joel Chandler Harris was a young boy, he spent most of his time working on Turnwold plantation in Putnam County, Georgia. There, he heard slaves entertaining themselves with stories […]

In this review, the authors examined articles on collaboration within the context of disciplinary literacy that appeared in the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacybetween October 2008, when Moje published “Foregrounding the Disciplines in Secondary Literacy Teaching and Learning: A Call for Change,” and December 2017. Findings suggest that the definition of disciplinary literacy has expanded, collaboration is important for both teacher and student learning, and tension surfaces when collaboration happens. The authors propose that greater attention needs to be given to the role of collaboration as a space to engage and enhance disciplinary literacy practices.

4Q * 4P * J * S Hillyer, Lexa. Proof of Forever. HarperTeen, 2015. 352p. $17.99. 978-0-06-233037-6. Joy, Tali, Luce, and Zoe have not spoken to each other in a [...]

3Q * 4P * J * S McGill, Leslie. Fighter: Cap Central, Book 1. Saddleback, 2014. 140p. $9.95 Trade pb. 978-1-62250-705-4. Thanks to his colonel dad and a mom serving […]

3Q * 4P * M * J Lyons, C.J. Broken. Sourcebooks, 2013.336p. $16.99. 978-1-4022-8545-5. Scarlet has spent her entire life in and out of hospitals. Now at fifteen years old, [...]

4Q * 4P * S Terry, Chris L. Zero Fade: A Novel. Curbside Splendor, 2013. 294p. $12. Trade pb. 978-0-9884804-3-8. Kevin is on the cusp of living the good life. [...]

3Q * 4P * M * J Lackey, Mercedes and Rosemary Edghill. Dead Reckoning. Bloomsbury. 2012. 336p. $16.99. 978-1599906843. It is 1867 when three strangers meet in West Texas near [...]

4Q * 4P * M * J * S Valk, Laurens. TheLEGO Mindstorms EV3 Discovery Book: A Beginner's Guide to Building and Programming Robots. No Starch Press, 2014. 396p. $34.95. [...]

3Q * 4P * M Krumwiede, Lana. True Son: The Psi Chronicles, Book 3. Candlewick, 2015. 288p. $15.99. 978-0-7636-7262-1. This third book of The Psi Chronicles is told from Gevri [...]

4Q * 4P * M * J * S Schwartz, Jordan. The Art of LEGO Design: Creative Ways to Build Amazing Models. No Starch Press, 2014. 288p. $24.95. 978-159327-553-2. Photos. [...]

3Q * 4P * M * J Matters of Opinion. Norwood House, 2014. 64p. PLB $27.93. Index. Photos. Glossary. Biblio. Allman, Toney. Food in Schools. 978-1-59953-604-0. Haugen, Hayley Mitchell. Video [...]

The Gift. Darby Creek, 2014. PLB $27.93. 3Q * 4P * M * J Karre, Elizabeth. Certain Signals. 112p. 978-1-4677-3511-7. --. All You Are. 120p. 978-1-4677-3510-0. This series is for [...]

DAVIS, Tanita S. A la carte. Random House, Knopf. 288p. 978-0-3758-4815-5. $15.99. J S High school senior Lainey Seifert is a loner by choice. All she needs in the world [...]

OKORAFOR-MBACHU, Nnedi. Zahrah the windseeker. Houghton Mifflin, Graphia. 308p. c2005. 078-0-547-02028-0. $799. JSA To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, September 2005: Far away, in the world of [...]

BURG, Shana. A thousand never evers. Random House, Delacorte. 301 p. c2008. 978-0-385-73470-7 $15.99. J When the mayor of Kuckachoo, Missippippi learns that the Supreme Court has declared that segregated [...]

ROBINSON, Sharon. Slam dunk. (Sequel to Safe at Home.) Scholastic. 151p. c2007 0-439-67199-X. $16.99. J In this sequel, Elijah 'Jumper' Breeze and his mother have moved from Connecticut to Harlem, [...]

MOSES, Shelia P. The baptism, a novel. Simon & Schuster. 127p. c2007. 1-4169-0671-1. $15.99. J Fans of The Legend of Buddy Bush and The Return of Buddy Bush have a [...]

SMITH, Sherri L. Sparrow. Random House, Delacorte. 184p. c2006. 0-85-90343-X. $17.99. JS 'That child's blessed,' everyone says of 17-year-old Kendall Washington, who at age four walked away from a car [...]

Tired of being outwitted, Brer Fox decided to make a Tar-Baby (a doll made of tar). He propped the Tar-Baby up on the side of the road and then hid […]

OKORAFOR-MBACHU, Nnedi. Zahrah the windseeker. Houghton Mifflin. 320p. c2005. 0-618-34090-4. $16.00. JSA Far away, in the world of Ginen, 14-year-old Zahrah Tsami lives with her parents in the Ooni Kingdom. [...]

GOLDEN, Marita. Don't play in the sun; one woman's journey through the color complex. Random House, Anchor. 195p. c2004. 1-4000-7736-2. $13.00. SA 'My friend's beautiful, brown-skinned, five-year-old daughter clutches her [...]

BORDOWITZ, Hank, ed. Every little thing gonna be alright; the Bob Marley reader. Perseus, Da Capo. 314p. illus, index. c2004. 0-306-81340-8. $17.95. SA There is no denying that Marley is [...]

4Q * 4P * M * J Scieszka, Jon, Ed. Guys Read: True Stories. Walden Pond/HarperCollins, 2014. 272p. $16.99. 978-0-06-196382-7. Illus. Biblio. Ten stories by some of today's most notable […]

African-American Icons. Enslow, 2014. 104p. PLB $26.60. Glossary. Index. Source Notes. Further Reading. Chronology. Discography. Filmography. 4Q * 3P * M * J * S Gitlin, Marty. Chris Rock: A [...]

4Q * 4P * M * J Lewis, Amanda West. September 17: A Novel. Red Deer, 2014. 224p. $14.95 Trade pb. 978-0-88995-507-3. After invading France in the summer of 1940, [...]

Burns, Christa, and Michael P. Sauers. Google Search Secrets. American Library Association, 2013. 224p. $48. Oversize pb. 978-1-55570-923-5. Index. Photos. Need an answer? These days, you will likely get the [...]

Military Special Ops. Lerner, 2013.32p. PLB $26.60. Glossary. Photos. Further Reading. Websites. Index. 3Q * 2P * M Lusted, Marcia Amidon. Army Delta Force: Elite Operations. 978-0-7613-9077-0. Newman, Patricia. Army [...]

3Q * 3P * J * S Strohm, Stephanie Kate. Confederates Don't Wear Couture. Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. 240p. $8.99 Trade pb. 978-0-547-97258-9. In this companion novel to Pilgrims Don't [...]

4Q * 4P * J * S Hartzler, Aaron. Rapture Practice: A True Story. Little, Brown, 2013. 400p. $17.99. 978-0-316-09465-8. Aaron Hartzler heard the word 'no' often while growing up [...]

4Q * 4P * J * S * (G) Knisley, Lucy. Relish: My Life in the Kitchen. First Second/Macmillan, 2013. 192p. $17.99 Trade pb. 978-1-59643-623-7. Photos. For most of us, […]

4Q * 3P * M * J * S Carlson, Dale, and Kishore Khairnar. Understand Your Self. Bick, 2012. 158p. $14.95 Trade pb. 978-1-884158-36-0. Illus. Biblio. Further Reading. Index. Adolescence [...]

4Q * 4P * J * S Corrigan, Eireann. The Believing Game. Scholastic, 2012. 384p. $17.99. 978-0-54529983-1. Sometimes people do questionable things to attract the attention of the one they [...]

4Q * 4P * M * J * S McNamee, Graham. Beyond: A Ghost Story. Wendy Lamb/Random House, 2012. 240p. $15.99. 978-0-385-73775-3. Everyone on the Rain Coast in Edgewood knows [...]

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Business Leaders. Morgan Reynolds, 2012. 112p. PLB $28.95. Photos. Biblio. Sources. Websites. Time Line. Index. 4Q * 3P * M * J * S Hasday, Judy L. Facebook and Mark [...]

3Q * 4P * M * J Voorhees, Coert. Lucky Fools. Hyperion, 2012. 304p. $16.99. 978-1-4231-2398-9. Thespian David Ellison is caught in the middle of a few things: Cool kid [...]

5Q * 4P * M * J ** Patrick, Cat. Revived. Little, Brown, 2012. 352p. $ 17.99. 978-0316094627. Daisy Appleby has died four times when Revived begins, and within a [...]

4Q * 4P * M * J Lupica, Mike. Underdogs. Philomel, 2011. 272p. $17.99. 978-0399250019. Seventh grader Will Tyler has been playing football for as long as he can remember, [...]

AbstractRecent images of President Obama’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Marian Robinson, caring for her granddaughters in the White House are a powerful reminder of the prominence that grandmothers have had in African American communities. The significance of the grandmother figure can also be seen in award-winning literature for young adolescents such as in Rita Williams-Garcia’s One Crazy Summer(2010) and P.S. Be Eleven(2013). An inductive qualitative content analysis of the functions of the grandmother in these novels provides insight into the significance of grandmothers in African American families. Framed by Black feminist thought and research and scholarship in family studies, analysis of the novels finds that the grandmother serves three major roles: caregiver, teacher, and disciplinarian.

4Q * 4P * M Garretson, Dee. Wolf Storm. HarperCollins, 2011. 288p. $16.99. 978-0062000323. Stefan is offered the opportunity of a lifetime: He is starring in a science fiction movie [...]

4Q * 4P * M White, Ruth. A Month of Sundays. Farrar Straus & Giroux/Macmillan, 2011. 176p. $16.99. 978-0-374-39912-2. April Garnet Rose is unhappy when her mother leaves her with […]

Patterson, James and Chris Tebbetts. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life. Illus. by Laura Park. Little Brown, 2011. 288p. $15.99. 978-0-316-10187-5. 3Q*2P*M*(G) Like other 'novels in cartoons' (e.g., [...]