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

<p><span>INTRODUCTION</span></p>
<p><span>Henry “Cody” Miller and Paula Greathouse</span></p>
<p><span>CHAPTER 1</span></p>
<p><span>The History of Queer Young Adult Literature</span></p>
<p><span>Michael Cart and Joan F. Kaywell</span></p>
<p><span>CHAPTER 2</span></p>
<p><span>Rhetorical Analysis of Black Queer Narratives through </span><span>All Boys Aren’t Blue</span></p>
<p><span>LaMar Timmons-Long</span></p>
<p><span>CHAPTER 3</span></p>
<p><span>Characterization and Symbolism in Superhero-Themed Graphic Novels with </span><span>You Brought Me </span></p>
<p><span>the Ocean</span></p>
<p><span>René M. Rodríguez-Astacio</span></p>
<p><span>CHAPTER 4 </span></p>
<p><span>Color Palettes and Peculiar Panels: Studying Narrative Structure in Tillie Walden’s </span><span>On A </span></p>
<p><span>Sunbeam</span></p>
<p><span>Nicole Amato and Jenna Spiering</span></p>
<p><span>C</span><a></a><span>HAPTER 5</span></p>
<p><span>“About Being Free”: Exploring Identity, Queerness, and Radical Possibility through Verse in </span></p>
<p><span>The Black Flamingo</span></p>
<p><span>shea wesley martin</span></p>
<p><span>CHAPTER 6</span></p>
<p><span>“to go somewhere I knew someone would see me”: Narrative Structure, Flashbacks, and Social </span></p>
<p><span>Worlds in Candice Iloh’s </span><span>Every Body Looking</span></p>
<p><span>Ryan Burns </span></p>
<p><span>CHAPTER 7</span></p>
<p><span>Exploring </span><span>The Prom</span><span> as Texts and Symbol </span></p>
<p><span>Terri Suico </span></p>
<p><span>CHAPTER 8</span></p>
<p><span>Focusing on Marginalized Identities through Imagery: A Fairy Tale Retelling and Remix with </span></p>
<p><span>Dark and Deepest Red</span></p>
<p><span>Summer Melody Pennell </span></p>
<p><span>CHAPTER 9</span></p>
<p><span>Queering Literary Close Reading with </span><span>The Fascinators</span></p>
<p><span>Scott Storm</span></p>
<p><span>CHAPTER 10</span></p>
<p><span>Exploring Blackness, Queerness and Liberation through</span><span> The Stars and the Blackness Between </span></p>
<p><span>Them</span></p>
<p><span>Danelle Adeniji, Brittany Frieson, Tatyana Jimenez-Macias, Kristin Rasbury, Kyle Wright and Amanda Vickery </span></p>
<p><span>CHAPTER 11</span></p>
<p><span>Felix Ever After</span><span>: A Mystery in Progress </span></p>
<p><span>Lucy A. Garcia and Megan Lynn Isaac</span></p>
<p><span>CHAPTER 12</span></p>
<p><span>Exploring Characterization Narratives with </span><span>Chulito: A Novel</span></p>
<p><span>Gabriel T. Acevedo Velázquez </span></p>
<p><span>CHAPTER 13</span></p>
<p><span>Multimodal Exploration of Identity in </span><span>The Music of What Happens</span></p>
<p><span>Anthony Celaya &amp; Joseph D. Sweet </span></p>
<p><span>CHAPTER 14</span></p>
<p><span>Multimodal Analysis of Characters and Settings in </span><span>Little &amp; Lion </span><span>by Brandy Colbert</span></p>
<p><span>E. Sybil Durand</span></p>
<p><span>ABOUT THE EDITORS </span></p>
<p><span>ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS </span></p>
<p><span>SUBJECT INDEX</span></p>
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<p><span>Paula Greathouse</span><span> is an associate professor of secondary English Education at Tennessee Tech University. She was a secondary English and Reading teacher for sixteen years. </span><span>She has received several teaching awards including the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Teacher of Excellence Award.</span></p>
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<p><span>Henry “Cody” Miller</span><span> is an assistant professor of English education at SUNY Brockport. Prior to that role, he taught high school English in Florida for seven years. He served as the chair of the LGBTQ Advisory Board for the National Council of Teachers of English from 2018-2021. His scholarship has appeared in publications like </span><span>The English Journal</span><span>, </span><span>ALAN Review</span><span>, </span><span>English Leadership Quarterly,</span><span> among others. </span></p>
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