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<span><span>This text offers 6</span><span>^th</span><span> - 12</span><span>^th</span><span> grade ELA educators </span><span>guided instructional approaches for including queer-themed young adult (YA) literature in the English language arts classroom.</span></span>

<span><span>CHAPTER 1: The History of Queer Young Adult Literature </span></span>
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<span><span>Michael Cart and Joan F. Kaywell</span></span>
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<span><span>CHAPTER 2: Collaborating with School Librarians </span></span>
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<span><span>Julie Stepp </span></span>
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<span><span>CHAPTER 3: Teaching Geography Club to Reduce Homophobia and Bullying</span></span>
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<span><span>Victor Malo-Juvera</span></span>
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<span><span>CHAPTER 4: Encouraging Reader Empathy with October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard </span></span>
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<span><span>Katie R. Peel</span></span>
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<span><span>CHAPTER 5: Loving Self, Loving Others: Queer Youth, Eating Disorders, and The Art of Starving</span></span>
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<span><span>Gretchen Rumohr-Voskuil</span></span>
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<span><span>CHAPTER 6: Exploring Sexuality, Gender, Nationality, and Religion through Sara Farizan’s If You Could Be Mine </span></span>
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<span><span>Mollie V. Blackburn and Youmna Deiri</span></span>
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<span><span>CHAPTER 7: Analyzing the Text, Analyzing the World: Developing Students’ Critical Literacies with Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe </span></span>
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<span><span>Ashley S. Boyd and Ruben Zecena</span></span>
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<span><span>CHAPTER 8: Seeing the Queer South: A Teacher’s Guide to Honor Girl and the Teaching of Graphic Memoir </span></span>
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<span><span>James Joshua Coleman </span></span>
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<span><span>CHAPTER 9: Queer Adolescent Memoir: Real Lives Matter </span></span>
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<span><span>Crag Hill and Alex Ruggiers</span></span>
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<span><span>CHAPTER 10: The Queer Possibilities of Romeo and/or Juliet </span></span>
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<span><span>Briana Asmus and Christopher Nagle</span></span>
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<span><span>CHAPTER 11: Better Nate than Ever: Boy Meets Broadway</span></span>
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<span><span>Amber Spears and Kristy L. Reagan</span></span>
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<span><span>CHAPTER 12: What Defines Me? Exploring Identity through One True Way in the Middle Level ELA Classroom</span></span>
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<span><span>Brooke Eisenbach, Paula Greathouse, LeAnn Taylor</span></span>
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<span><span>CHAPTER 13: Challenging the Gender Binary while Studying Author's Craft in Freakboy</span></span>
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<span><span>Lesley Roessing </span></span>
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<span><span>CHAPTER 14: Girls with Ambition and Heart: Teaching Malinda Lo’s Huntress </span></span>
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<span><span>Summer Melody Pennell</span></span>
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<span><span>CHAPTER 15: Turning up and Tuning in to Lizard Radio: Discussing Gender Fluidity and Gender Queerness through Speculative Young Adult Fiction </span></span>
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<span><span>Michelle M. FalterCHAPTER 16: Queering Conventional Narrative Elements with Lily and Dunkin </span></span>
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<span><span>Jenell Igeleke Penn, Caroline T. Clark, and Jill M. Williams</span></span>
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<span><span>CHAPTER 17: Bearing Witness to Our Being and Becoming in Middle School with Parrotfish </span></span>
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<span><span>Sarah J. Donovan</span></span>
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<span><span>CHAPTER 18: Trans*Forming the Middle Level English Language Arts Classroom: Reading George to Promote Ally-ship</span></span>
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<span><span>Judith Hayn</span></span>
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<span><span>CHAPTER 19: Learning to Live Authentically: Studying Transgender Youth through Being Emily</span></span>
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<span><span>Rachel A. Roloff and Ashley S. Boyd</span></span>
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<span><span>ABOUT THE EDITORS </span></span>
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<span><span>ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS </span></span>
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<span><span>REFERENCES</span></span>
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<span><span>SUBJECT INDEX</span></span>

<span><span>Paula Greathouse</span><span> is assistant professor of secondary English Education at Tennessee Tech. She was a secondary English and Reading teacher for sixteen years. </span></span>
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<span><span>Brooke Eisenbach</span><span> 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.</span></span>
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<span><span>Joan F. Kaywell</span><span> 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 </span><span>Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics</span><span>.</span></span>