Expanding the Foundation

<P>This volume focuses on a group of authors who began writing in the late 1980s. This group consists of eight authors who expanded the foundation and built a critical reputation that garnered a variety of nominations and awards. These authors are: Rita Williams-Garcia Jacqueline Woodson Angela Johnson Nikki Grimes Sharon Draper Christopher Paul Curtis and Sharon G. Flake and Jewel Parker Rhodes. This volume has a chapter for each of these eight authors that focuses on their critical reception as authors then discusses in some detail a single representative work and finally offers classroom activities for individual small group and whole class activities that will engage students in the work discussed. </P>