Our English classrooms are often only as vibrant as the literature that we teach. This book
explores the writing of contemporary American author Barbara Kingsolver who offers readers
and students engaging fiction nonfiction and poetry that confront the reader and the world.
Here teachers will find an introduction to the works of Kingsolver and an opportunity to
explore how to bring those works into the classroom as a part of the reading and writing
curriculum. This volume attempts to confront what we teach and how we teach as English teachers
through the vivid texts Kingsolver offers her readers.
