Book Reviews

This page is dedicated to providing teachers with information on essential publications about writing and the teaching of writing. Below you will find links to reviews of these books, which were written by the 2005 Writing Project Summer Invitational participants. Some books may have been reviewed several times by different Writing Project Teacher Consultants. *

Tom Romano's Crafting Authentic Voice by Tama Morris, Lecturer in UNCC School of Nursing and Writing Project Teacher Consultant

Peter McClaren’s Che Guevara, Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy of Revolution and Jean Anyon’s Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education and a New Social Movement - by Dr. Tony Scott, Writing Project Instructor and Professor of English at UNC Charlotte

Ralph Fletcher's What a Writer Needs - by Melissa Logan, elementary school teacher and Writing Project Teacher Consultant

Ralph Fletcher's What a Writer Needs- by Jennifer Parsons, elementary school teacher and Writing Project Teacher Consultant

Stephen King's On Writing- by Shaftina Allen, middle school teacher and Writing Project Teacher Consultant

Janet Allen's It's Never Too Late- by Annette York, middle school teacher and Writing Project Teacher Consultant

Patrick Finn's Literacy with an Attitude: Educating Class Children in their Own Self-interest- by Shana Woodward, high school and college teacher, Writing Project Teacher Consultant

Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools- by Jeanie Marklin, college education teacher, Writing Project Teacher Consultant

Elizabeth Boquet's Noise from the Writing Center- by Kimberly James, Writing Center Director at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, Writing Project Teacher Consultant