The Value of Staying Connected through NCTE
…I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai’s memoir. At the time of introducing this book as a formal unit study, my colleague and I discussed why our school community needed to embrace…
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Quashing Disability Myths through the Lived Experience of Authors: Three New Middle Grade Books
…are treated as—just people. Rolling Warrior, by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner Judith Heumann narrates her dramatic memoir for middle grades, Rolling Warrior (2021), written with Kristen Joiner. In the…
Making a Deep Connection
…the Sky, a memoir by Farah Ahmedi. Ahmedi experiences unimaginable challenges that many of us in the western world would never encounter. She becomes disabled after stepping on a landmine,…
Forwarding Literacy in I Am Malala
…year after being shot, Malala Yousafzai published a memoir, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. Cowritten with journalist Christina Lamb,…
Mentor Texts for Teaching Narrative Writing: Chapter Books
…centuries-old format of the encyclopedia to convey the accumulated knowledge of her lifetime in a poignant, wise, often funny, fully realized memoir. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by…
Build Your Stack: Books Save Lives
…Memoir by Paige Rawl with Ali Benjamin (2017). Paige Rawl is a midwestern American girl who was born HIV positive. When her HIV status is revealed, in middle school, she…
Why Students Should Read This Book
I just finished reading—actually listening to Sherman Alexie read—You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir. Not a YA book like The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time…
Build Your Stack: Choosing Titles for a “Reluctant” Male Teen Reader
…. . . guaranteed. Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos In this gripping memoir, author Jack Gantos relates the story of the time he was hired to…
Build Your Stack: Affirming Black Boys outside the Context of Police Brutality
…George M. Johnson Journalist and activist George M. Johnson’s YA memoir-manifesto All Boys Aren’t Blue takes stories from his childhood, adolescence, and college years to show readers how they can…
It’s All in the Details
…What’s already been written and collected? I focus on direct sources—letters, diaries, memoirs, interviews. This is where intimate, defining details are found. For example, while researching The Family Romanov, I…
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