Between the Lines: Actively Engaging Readers in the English Classroom - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Michael Anthony has taught secondary English students, grades nine through twelve, for the last 20 years. He conceived and implemented a genre-based instructional English language arts curriculum, integrating independent readership and young adult (YA) literature. In 2006, he successfully reversed a ban on Adam Rapp's YA novel The Buffalo Tree in the Muhlenberg School District, as featured in the NewYork Times. He has been a featured speaker at college and university symposiums on "Censorship in Schools" and has presented on adapting reading workshop strategies for high school students at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) convention. His research on the teen angst YA literature subgenre has been cited in The AlanReview.

Joan F. Kaywell is 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.