More Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Doors: A Period of Growth in African American Young Adult Literature (2001 to 2021)

Title

More Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Doors: A Period of Growth in African American Young Adult Literature (2001 to 2021)

Role

Co-editors: Steven T. Bickmore and Shanetia P. Clark

Contributing author: Bryan Ripley Crandall

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Book Contribution

Description/Summary

Bryan Ripley Crandall is a contributing author, "'As In' An Award Winning Writer: Kwame Alexander," chapter 4, pp.33-44.

This is the third book in a three volume series celebrating and examining about the work of 11 of the most prominent African American authors since 2000. The eleven identified authors are Andrea Davis Pinkney, Coe Booth, Sheila P. Moses, Kwame Alexander, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Varian Johnson, Renee Watson, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nnedi Okorafor, and Lamar Giles. These authors build on the work of the authors in books two and three. The chapter authors—librarians and established and emerging scholars in the field of young adult literature--survey the work of each author, their accolades, and how audiences responded to their work. Each chapter highlights a single work and discusses how it might be taught in a classroom with a focus on introductory, during, and concluding activities for individuals, small groups and the whole class. This volume is a resource for classroom teachers, teacher educators, reading specialists, librarians, and other educators who study, research, and read young adult literature. Even more importantly it can be resource for students who read and study these authors at the secondary and collegiate level. This is especially true when the current moment in the U. S. shows facing anew concerns of voting rights and discussion of how and when Critical Race Theory or any discussion of Race might take place in a classroom.

ISBN

9781475843590

Publication Date

4-18-2022

Publication Information

Crandall, B.R. (2022). "As In" An Award Winning Writer: Kwame Alexander. In S. Bickmore and S. Clark (eds). More Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Doors: A Period of Growth in African American Young Adult Literature (2001 to 2021). Maryland; Rowman & Littlefield.

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Copyright 2022 by Steven T. Bickmore and Shanetia P. Clark

More Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Doors: A Period of Growth in African American Young Adult Literature (2001 to 2021)

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