Young Adult and Canonical Literature: Pairing and Teaching - Paperback

by Paula Greathouse (Editor), Victor Malo-Juvera (Editor)

The purpose of this collection is to offer secondary teachers engaging ideas and approaches for pairing young adult and canonical novels to provide unique examinations of topics that teaching either text in isolation could not afford.

Author Biography

Paula Greathouse is associate professor of secondary English Education at Tennessee Tech where she teaches English methods, literacy, and young adult literature courses. She was a secondary English and Reading teacher for sixteen years. Victor Malo-Juvera is a former middle school teacher and current associate professor of English Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where he teaches courses in young adult literature and multicultural young adult literature.