Introduction / Steven T. Bickmore and Shanetia P. Clark -- "We're all just people here": Freedom, hope, and migration in brown girl dreaming / KaaVonia Hinton -- Coming of age and confronting sexual identity in Jacqueline Woodson's from the notebooks of Melanin Sun / Tammy Szafranski and Steven T. Bickmore -- A life revealed: Angela Johnson's the first part last and the transformational power of the personal narrative / Matt Skillen -- Niki Grimes: Poet, writer, advocate, and creative spirit / Mary Napoli and Barbara A. Ward -- Nikki Grimes: Poetry as Memoir / Mary Napoli and Barbara A. Ward -- Constructing understanding through advocacy: A critical disability studies perspective on Sharon Draper's out of my mind / Kathryn Caprino and Tara Anderson Gold -- History, memory, and family stories in Sharon Draper's Stella by Starlight / Morgan Jackson and Steven T. Bickmore -- An examination of who we are through historical fiction: Using Christopher Paul Curtis's the journey of little Charlie as a Magnifying glass / Shanetia P. Clark -- Finding and accepting oneself through Sharon G. Flake's the skin I'm in / Tammy Szafranski and Steven T. Bickmore -- Narrating the extraordinary everydayness of black adolescents through the works of Rita Williams-Garcia / Roberta Price Gardner -- Jewel Parker Rhodes: Towers falling, hope rising / Regina S. Carter, Bethany B. Mickel, and Felicia Moore.
Summary:
"Within this book we survey and discuss the history of African American Authors of Young Adult Literature"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
African American authors of young adult literature ; 2
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