Vol. 15 No. 2 (2019): Creating Our Own Spaces

Editor's Introduction

Editor’s Introduction: Creating Our Own Spaces

Research Articles

The Black Literacies of Urban High School Youth Countering Anti-Blackness in the Context of Neoliberal Multiculturalism

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Wrestling with Competency and Everyday Literacies in School

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Meaningful, Embodied Literacies: Dramatic Play and Revision with Middle School Writers in Warsaw, Poland

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Men Writing Their Lives: Situating the Authoring Processes of Zinesters

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“We’re Rural Not Dumb”: An Examination of Literacy Sponsorhip

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Voices from the Field

“We Need to Get These Scores Up”: A Narrative Examination of the Challenges of Teaching Literature in the Age of Standardized Testing

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Academic Book Reviews

McCann, T. M., & Knapp, J. V. (2019). Teaching on solid ground:
Knowledge foundations for the teacher of English. New York, NY: The Guilford
Press.

 

Goering, C. Z. & Thomas, P. L. (Eds.) (2018). Critical media literacy
and fake news in post-truth America. Leiden, NL: Brill Sense.

 

Williams, W. R. (2018). Listen to the poet: Writing, performance, and
community in youth spoken word poetry. Amherst, MA: University of
Massachusetts Press.

 

Lysaker, J. T. (2019). Before words: Wordless picture books and the
development of reading in young children. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

 

Witte, S., Latham, D. & Gross, M. (Eds). (2019). Literacy engagement
through peritextual analysis. Chicago, IL: American Library Association.

 

Winn, M. T. (2018). Justice on both sides: Transforming education
through restorative justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Picture Book Reviews

Javaherbin, M., & Yankey, L. (Illustrator). (2019). My grandma and me. Somerville,
MA: Candlewick Press.

 

Ylla-Somers C., & Pommaux, Y. (Illustrator). (2019). All of us: A young people's
history of the world (A. Lehmann (Trans.). New York, NY: NYR Children's
Collection.

 

Sharma, N. P., & Amaya, A. (Illustrator). (2018). The tomato flood. New Delhi, IN:
Tota Books.

 

Charlip, R. (2019). Arm in arm. New York, NY: The New York Review Children’s
Collection.

 

Jay, A. (2017). Looking for yesterday. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press.

 

Brown, C. (2019). Up verses down: Poems, paintings, and serious nonsense. New York,
NY: Henry Holt and Company.

Young Adult Book Reviews

Levy, J. S. (2019). Seventh grade vs. the galaxy. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing
Group.

 

Lockington, M. J. (2019). For black girls like me. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux.

 

Cheng, J. (2017). See you in the cosmos. New York, NY: Dial Books for Young Readers.

 

Appelhans, L. (2019). The manic pixie dream boy improvement project. Minneapolis: MN:
Carolrhoda Lab.

Poetry

“At This Very Moment” & “The Crasher”

 

“war in the time of commas”, “grammar Nazis (post-apostrophe literature”, & “like two lower-case pronouns”

 

“The Best Way to Enjoy Fish” & “The Trash”

 

“The World We Live In–Recrimination”

Visual Art

“Disappearing Act”

 

“Collaborative Mark-Making”