Young Adult Literature: Exploration, Evaluation, and Appreciation

About Kaaavonia Hinton-JohnsonKatherine Bucher

Professor Emerita of Educational Curriculum and Instruction at Old Dominion University Dr. Katherine T. Bucher has written several books including Teaching in the Middle School (2011) Classroom Management; Models Applications and Cases (2012) and co-author (with Tami Craft Al-hazza) Books about the Middle East (2008).  Dr. Bucher has also written numerous articles and book chapters. In 2008 she retired from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Old Dominion University in Norfolk Virginia where she served as assistant department chair and graduate program director for the school library program. KaaVonia Hinton PhD is an associate professor in the Darden College of Education at Old Dominion University in Norfolk Virginia. She is the author of Angela Johnson: Poetic Prose (2006) and Sharon M. Draper: Embracing Literacy (2009) and co-author (with Gail K. Dickinson) of Integrating Multicultural Literature in Libraries and Classrooms in Secondary Schools (2007) and (with Sueanne McKinney) Mathematics Literature in the K-8 Classroom and Library (2010).