Paula Greathouse is an assistant professor of secondary English Education at Tennessee Tech. She was a secondary English and Reading teacher for sixteen years. Joan F. Kaywell is a professor of secondary English Education at the University of South Florida. She served as President of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE (ALAN) and recognized as the original proponent of using Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics.Brooke Eisenbach is an assistant professor of Middle and Secondary Education at Lesley University. She was a middle school English language arts and Adolescent Literature teacher for nine years, and an online English teacher for two years.

A wonderful exploration of the vital ways adolescent literature can open hearts and truly engage minds with the historical realities of our world. This is an important addition to every teacher’s professional library!

• CHAPTER 1Collaborating with School Librarians to Guide Content Area Literacies Using Young Adult LiteratureJulie Stepp CHAPTER 2 The Habits of a Nation: Reading Chains in Middle School Social StudiesGretchen Rumohr-Voskuil and Luke Rumohr CHAPTER 3Bud, Not Buddy in Social Studies: Trials and Tribulations during the Great DepressionMalinda Hoskins Lloyd and James E. AkensonCHAPTER 4Using the Storm in the Barn to Study the Dust Bowl: Comics as Triggers for InquiryCrag Hill and Kristy BrugarCHAPTER 5Understanding of the Role of Leningrad in World War II through M. T. Anderson’s Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovichand the Siege of LeningradSteve Bickmore and Paul Binford CHAPTER 6Number the Stars: World War II and Young Adult LiteratureJason L. O’Brien and Brooke EisenbachCHAPTER 7Using the Peritextual Literacy Framework with Young Adult Biographies: Introducing Peritextual Functions with Adolescents in Social StudiesShelbie Witte, Melissa Gross, and Don Latham CHAPTER 8Introducing Students to the Background of the Civil Rights Movement by Using Mississippi Trial, 1955Katie Irion and Chris Crowe CHAPTER 9 Race, Racism, and Power Structures: Reading All American Boys in a Social Studies Current Events CourseShelly Shaffer and A. Suzie Henning CHAPTER 10The Eyes of van Gogh: Searching for Identity and Expression through ArtRobert Jordan and Mike DiCicco CHAPTER 11Understanding Theater in Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of TheaterJeffrey S. Kaplan and Elizabeth Brendel Horn CHAPTER 12A Music and ELA Project: Connections through Brendan Kiely’s The Last True Love StorySteve Bickmore and Isaac Bickmore CHAPTER 13YA Sports Literature through a Positive Psychology FrameworkNicole Sieben and Alan Brown ABOUT THE EDITORS ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES INDEX OF SUBJECTS