CHAPTER 1
Collaborating with School Librarians to Guide Content Area Literacies
Using Young Adult Literature
Julie Stepp

CHAPTER 2
The Habits of a Nation: Reading Chains in Middle School Social Studies
Gretchen Rumohr-Voskuil and Luke Rumohr

CHAPTER 3
Bud, Not Buddy in Social Studies: Trials and Tribulations during the Great
Depression
Malinda Hoskins Lloyd and James E. Akenson

CHAPTER 4
Using the Storm in the Barn to Study the Dust Bowl: Comics as Triggers
for Inquiry
Crag Hill and Kristy Brugar

CHAPTER 5
Understanding of the Role of Leningrad in World War II through M. T.
Anderson’s Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich
and the Siege of Leningrad
Steve Bickmore and Paul Binford

CHAPTER 6
Number the Stars: World War II and Young Adult Literature
Jason L. O’Brien and Brooke Eisenbach

CHAPTER 7
Using the Peritextual Literacy Framework with Young Adult Biographies:
Introducing Peritextual Functions with Adolescents in Social Studies
Shelbie Witte, Melissa Gross, and Don Latham

CHAPTER 8
Introducing Students to the Background of the Civil Rights Movement by
Using Mississippi Trial, 1955
Katie Irion and Chris Crowe

CHAPTER 9
Race, Racism, and Power Structures: Reading All American Boys in a Social
Studies Current Events Course
Shelly Shaffer and A. Suzie Henning

CHAPTER 10
The Eyes of van Gogh: Searching for Identity and Expression through Art
Robert Jordan and Mike DiCicco

CHAPTER 11
Understanding Theater in Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a
Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater
Jeffrey S. Kaplan and Elizabeth Brendel Horn

CHAPTER 12
A Music and ELA Project: Connections through Brendan Kiely’s The Last
True Love Story
Steve Bickmore and Isaac Bickmore
CHAPTER 13
YA Sports Literature through a Positive Psychology Framework
Nicole Sieben and Alan Brown
ABOUT THE EDITORS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES
INDEX OF SUBJECTS