A former school library media specialist and public librarian,Dr. Katherine Bucherhas written several books includingTeaching in the Middle School(2009),Classroom Management; Models Applications and Cases(2007), andBooks about the Middle East(2008), as well as numerous articles and book chapters.nbsp; 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. nbsp; KaaVonia Hintonis an assistant 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 Draper: Embracing Literacy (2009), and co-author (with Gail K. Dickinson) of Integrating Multicultural Literature in Libraries and Classrooms in Secondary Schools (2007).