Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Content Areas

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.

• CHAPTER 1Collaborating with School Librarians to Guide Content Area Literacies UsingYoung Adult LiteratureJulie Stepp CHAPTER 2 Ship Breaker: Climate Change, Gene Splicing, and Coming of AgeMike DiCicco and Chris Cook CHAPTER 3The Climate Crisis Gets Personal: Using The Carbon Diaries 2015 in Earth ScienceDavid Nurenberg and Ray PavlikCHAPTER 4Hold Your Breath! Using Code Orange to Teach Biology through the History,Nature, and Threat of Infectious DiseaseStephanie Wendt and Amber Spears CHAPTER 5Harnessing the Wind in Environmental Science: A Hands-On ApproachJennifer Dail and Kimberly Warschaw CHAPTER 6The Chemy Called Al: Fantasy Meets FactJulie Baker and Kelly MooreCHAPTER 7Newton in the Battle Room: Reading Ender’s Game in the Science ClassroomDavid Nurenberg and Jason Tong CHAPTER 8Closer than Imagined: Reading Singularity in Physics ClassMilton Huling and Patricia Daniel Jones CHAPTER 9 Ada Lovelace: Enchantress of General Math Sharon Kane and Christopher Kane CHAPTER 10Critical Literacy of Graphs: A Mathematical and Freirean Exploration of An Abundance of KatherinesRoser Giné and Summer Clark CHAPTER 11Finding Solutions in Do The Math: Secrets, Lies, and AlgebraHolly Garrett Anthony and Janet Kesterson Isbell CHAPTER 12From Disenchanted to Intrigued: Unveiling the Number Devil’s Tricks in Precalculus and CalculusHolly Garrett Anthony, Nancy Kolodziej, and Jennifer R. Meadows CHAPTER 13Training Mathletes through The Math OlympianCalle Friesen and Shelia Remington Jones ABOUT THE EDITORS ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES INDEX OF SUBJECTS

This is valuable text that will help craft middle and secondary students' understanding of science. Each science contributor partnered with a literacy expert to include pre-reading, during-reading, and post-reading strategies with young adult books to increase and deepen students’ understanding of various scientific concepts.  This work readdresses the need for the practical application of subject matter in an approachable, easily understood manner.