CHILDREN'S AND YA LITERATURE GRADES PreK–6


Deepening Student Engagement with Diverse Picturebooks


Powerful Classroom Practices for Elementary Teachers Angie Zapata


Using diverse picturebooks, Zapata offers practical approaches and guiding principles to explore literature


through an anti-oppressive lens in the early childhood and elementary classroom. This book is informed by the ethics behind integrating diverse children’s picturebooks in the classroom, a desire to cultivate a critical literature classroom landscape that resists stereotypical representations of people of color in literature, and a commitment to recentering critical engagement of diverse picturebooks. Part of the Principles in Practice imprint, it draws on NCTE’s position statement Preparing Teachers with Knowledge of Children’s and Young Adult Literature.


167 pp. | 2023 | ISBN 9780814101612 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814101629


GRADES 9–12


Challenging Traditional Classroom Spaces with YA Literature


Students in Community as Course Co-Designers Ricki Ginsberg


As a high school teacher, Ricki Ginsberg realized that a truly student-centered classroom requires student


input. To foster a more ethical, community-based approach to curriculum design and instruction, she worked with her students to reimagine and co-design existing, grade- level courses, and in doing so, they integrated young adult literature as central to the curriculum and course design. In this book, Ginsberg, along with more than a dozen teacher contributors, shares course design possibilities for teachers seeking to disrupt and reimagine traditional structures with the inclusion of YA literature. Grounded in NCTE’s Preparing Teachers with Knowledge of Children’s and Young Adult Literature position statement, this book offers both big ideas, such as overarching structural decisions and pedagogical positioning, as well as a wealth of flexible and adaptable practical strategies and ideas.


155 pp. | 2022 | ISBN 9780814105351 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814105375


GRADES 6–12


Restorying Young Adult Literature


Expanding Students’ Perspectives with Digital Texts


James Joshua Coleman, Autumn A. Griffin, and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas


Winner of a 2024 Divergent Publication Award for Excellence in Literacy in a Digital Age Research


Building upon the 2018 Preparing Teachers with Knowledge of Children’s and Young


Adult Literature position statement, Restorying Young Adult Literature spotlights how both teachers and students are using digital tools and technologies to reread, rewrite, and restory YAL today. Primarily, this text provides pedagogical approaches and resources for English language arts (ELA) educators to integrate shifts in textuality and the availability of participatory digital networks into their classroom. The authors propose Digital YAL and Digital YA Culture as conceptual tools for teachers to learn from the digital restorying practices of young people and fellow educators, and across the book, they demonstrate how teachers can restory text selection, digital access, white curricula, and multimodality in their classroom, doing so in pursuit of more just teaching and learning for today’s digital era.


109 pp. | 2023 | ISBN 9780814101247 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814101254


ADOLESCENT LITERACY GRADES 6–12


Restorative Justice in the English Language Arts Classroom


Maisha T. Winn, Hannah Graham, and Rita Renjitham Alfred


“A transformative book. If this book is on your to-read list, move it to the top!” —Jessica Variz, Redondo Union High School


The authors—two teacher educators and a restorative justice practitioner—provide concrete and specific examples of how


English teachers can think and plan using a restorative justice lens to address issues of student disconnection and alienation; adult and youth well-being in schools; and inequity and racial justice through writing, reading, speaking, and action. They examine the intersection of restorative justice and education with a focus on restorative justice processes that are used to promote inclusivity and ownership, and demonstrate how teachers can use their curricular powers with a restorative justice framework in mind to empower the literacy classroom as a space for addressing inequalities across domains.


126 pp. | 2019 | ISBN 9780814141014 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814100387


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