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From the Editors
Oct 01, 2008; ... There's a buzz in the air. You get wind of it in the department store aisles filled with book bags, binders, glue sticks and rulers. It's fall, and another school year is cranking up. As students head back to school, this issue of The ALAN Review provides an extensive look at a variety ...
Critical Literacy in Cyberspace?
Oct 01, 2008; ... A Case Study Analysis of One Preservice Teacher's Attempts at Critical Talk about Monster in Online Chats with Adolescents Despite the ubiquity of research that suggests discussion about literature helps to increase student engagement with literary texts and is an integral part of ...
Die a Graphic Death: Revisiting the Death of Genre with Graphic Novels, or "Why won't you just die already?"
Oct 01, 2008; ... Graphic Novels and the Slow Death of Genre In "The Death of Genre: Why the Best YA fiction Often Defies Classification" [The ALAN Review, 35.1: 43-50), Scot Smith speaks of having to constantly reclassify and reshuffle texts as he and his students consider the books on the genre lists ...
Walter Dean Myers: A Monster of a Voice for Young Adults
Oct 01, 2008; ... Walter Dean Myers, award-winning author of young adult literature such as Monster and Fallen Angels, is well represented in school and public libraries across the nation. His novels have become standard elements as teachers and librarians work to connect students to literature. The ALAN Review ...
Hearing Nancy Garden Out
Oct 01, 2008; ... Author Nancy Garden looks nothing like the warrior- like image I had conjured of her after reading her books and every article I could find about or by her. She is a small, almost fragile woman with a soft voice and gentle demeanor, but when she speaks or writes about the issues that matter to ...