Suzanne Elizabeth Reid is an assistant professor at Emory & Henry College in southwestern Virginia where she teaches courses in literature for children and young adults, Great Books, and teacher preparation. She is the author ofPresenting Cynthia Voigt andBook Bridges: Strategies for Teaching ESL with Children's and Young Adult Literature.

Although two critical studies of two different authors may be regarded, at first sight, as unlikely bedfellows to reside within one book review, Lois Stover's Jacqueline Woodson and Suzanne Reid's Virginia Euwer Wolff do fit together...each offers a sound biographical-critical author study characteristic of the Scarecrow Studies. Each draws reasonable conclusions about the relationship between writers' lives and the texts they write and each is passionate about her subject, a woman author who is highly regarded as a 'writer to read' in young adult literature....In each of these Scarecrow Studies in Young Literature, the authors meet the series expectations of demonstrating how a writer's life and attitudes influence the writer's craft and how the craft has evolved in each successive novel. Jacqueline Woodson and Virginia Euwer Wolff have each produced a body of work that is distinctive in its contribution to literature written for young adults.

• Chapter 1 AcknowledgmentsChapter 2 1 Virginia Euwer Wolff: Teacher, Writer, and ArtistChapter 3 2Probably Still Nick Swansen: Living with a Different MindChapter 4 3The Mozart Season: The Gifts of MusicChapter 5 4Bat 6: Dealing with RacismChapter 6 5Make Lemonade: Learning CompassionChapter 7 6 True Believer: Living with FaithChapter 8 BibliographerChapter 9 IndexChapter 10 About the Author

Suzanne Elizabeth Reid is an assistant professor at Emory & Henry College in southwestern Virginia where she teaches courses in literature for children and young adults, Great Books, and teacher preparation. She is the author ofPresenting Cynthia Voigt andBook Bridges: Strategies for Teaching ESL with Children's and Young Adult Literature.

Although two critical studies of two different authors may be regarded, at first sight, as unlikely bedfellows to reside within one book review, Lois Stover's Jacqueline Woodson and Suzanne Reid's Virginia Euwer Wolff do fit together...each offers a sound biographical-critical author study characteristic of the Scarecrow Studies. Each draws reasonable conclusions about the relationship between writers' lives and the texts they write and each is passionate about her subject, a woman author who is highly regarded as a 'writer to read' in young adult literature....In each of these Scarecrow Studies in Young Literature, the authors meet the series expectations of demonstrating how a writer's life and attitudes influence the writer's craft and how the craft has evolved in each successive novel. Jacqueline Woodson and Virginia Euwer Wolff have each produced a body of work that is distinctive in its contribution to literature written for young adults.

• Chapter 1 AcknowledgmentsChapter 2 1 Virginia Euwer Wolff: Teacher, Writer, and ArtistChapter 3 2Probably Still Nick Swansen: Living with a Different MindChapter 4 3The Mozart Season: The Gifts of MusicChapter 5 4Bat 6: Dealing with RacismChapter 6 5Make Lemonade: Learning CompassionChapter 7 6 True Believer: Living with FaithChapter 8 BibliographerChapter 9 IndexChapter 10 About the Author

Suzanne Elizabeth Reid is an assistant professor at Emory & Henry College in southwestern Virginia where she teaches courses in literature for children and young adults, Great Books, and teacher preparation. She is the author ofPresenting Cynthia Voigt andBook Bridges: Strategies for Teaching ESL with Children's and Young Adult Literature.

Although two critical studies of two different authors may be regarded, at first sight, as unlikely bedfellows to reside within one book review, Lois Stover's Jacqueline Woodson and Suzanne Reid's Virginia Euwer Wolff do fit together...each offers a sound biographical-critical author study characteristic of the Scarecrow Studies. Each draws reasonable conclusions about the relationship between writers' lives and the texts they write and each is passionate about her subject, a woman author who is highly regarded as a 'writer to read' in young adult literature....In each of these Scarecrow Studies in Young Literature, the authors meet the series expectations of demonstrating how a writer's life and attitudes influence the writer's craft and how the craft has evolved in each successive novel. Jacqueline Woodson and Virginia Euwer Wolff have each produced a body of work that is distinctive in its contribution to literature written for young adults.

• Chapter 1 AcknowledgmentsChapter 2 1 Virginia Euwer Wolff: Teacher, Writer, and ArtistChapter 3 2Probably Still Nick Swansen: Living with a Different MindChapter 4 3The Mozart Season: The Gifts of MusicChapter 5 4Bat 6: Dealing with RacismChapter 6 5Make Lemonade: Learning CompassionChapter 7 6 True Believer: Living with FaithChapter 8 BibliographerChapter 9 IndexChapter 10 About the Author