This thoughtful, articulate collection of research-based essays presents a multitude of tools for classroom teachers to adopt and adapt and belongs in teacher-educator programs and on well-stocked faculty bookshelves. . . .This collection is so valuable that even teachers on the verge of retirement will find it illuminating, energizing, and wholly worthwhile.

VOYA

Teaching Young Adult Literature: Integrating, Implementing, and Re-imagining the Common Core is a blueprint for using high-interest texts to engage readers across the content areas. YA novels, when brought to an academic level of study required by Common Core State Standards, build community and support inclusivity. Authors model numerous ways for teachers to promote text complexity, to interrogate points of view, and to write argumentatively. Students, as readers, should come first!

Dr. Bryan Ripley Crandall, Associate Professor; Director of the Connecticut Writing Project at Fairfield University

Kudos to the contributors of this text for proclaiming that young adult literature (YAL) can and should be used to meet the Common Core State Standards for middle and secondary grades. This text offers pre-service and current teachers practical suggestions for using YAL that may inspire their own creative thinking for how to plan literacy instruction using well-chosen current YA novels.

Jacquelyn Culpepper, PhD, associate professor of reading education, Tift College of Education, Mercer University