The history of queer young adult literature / Michael Cart and Joan F. Kaywell -- Collaborating with school librarians / Julie Stepp -- Teaching geography club to reduce homophobia and bullying / Victor Malo-Juvera -- Encouraging reader empathy with october mourning : a song for Matthew Shepard / Katie R. Peel -- Loving self, loving others : queer youth, eating disorders, and the art of starving Gretchen Rumohr-Voskuil -- Exploring sexuality, gender, nationality, and religion through sara Farizan's if you could be mine / Mollie V. Blackburn and Youmna Deiri -- Analyzing the text, analyzing the world : developing students' critical literacies with Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe / Ashley S. Boyd and Ruben Zecena -- Seeing the queer south : a teacher's guide to honor girl and the teaching of graphic memoir / James Joshua Coleman -- Queer adolescent memoir : real lives matter / Crag Hill and Alex Ruggiers -- The queer possibilities of Romeo and/or Juliet / Briana Asmus and Christopher Nagle -- Better nate than ever : boy meets Broadway / Amber Spears and Kristy L. Reagan -- What defines me? : exploring identity through one true way in the middle level Ela classroom / Brooke Eisenbach, Paula Greathouse, and LeAnn Taylor -- Challenging the gender binary while studying author's craft in freakboy / Lesley Roessing -- Girls with ambition and heart : teaching Malinda Lo's huntress / Summer Melody Pennell -- Turning up and tuning in to lizard radio : discussing gender fluidity and gender queerness through speculative young adult fiction / Michelle M. Falter -- Queering conventional narrative elements with Lily and Dunkin / Jenell Igeleke Penn, Caroline T. Clark, and Jill M. Williams -- Bearing witness to our being and becoming in middle school with parrotfish / Sarah J. Donovan -- Trans*forming the middle level English language arts classroom : reading george to promote ally-ship / Judith Hayn -- Learning to live authentically : studying transgender youth through being emily / Rachel A. Roloff and Ashley S. Boyd -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- References -- Subject index.