If you have read her bestselling Reading, Writing and Rising Up, or followed her articles in Rethinking Schools magazine, you know why she has achieved legendary status among classroom teachers and university-based educators alike.

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Teaching for Joy and Justice combines concrete, hands-on advice with inspiration, hope, and joy. As Christensen writes in her introduction, the book begins "with the non-negotiable belief that all students are capable of brilliance."

Christensen's 287-page book covers all aspects of the language arts curriculum, from reading and understanding literature, to writing poetry, narratives, and essays. She also helps her students understand the relationship between language and power, and provides guidance for teachers on complicated topics such as grading student work.

Part curriculum guide, part autobiography, part critique of standardized mandates, Teaching for Joy and Justice is based on Christensen's more than 30 years experience as a classroom teacher, language arts specialist, and teacher educator. It combines examples of how to teach for social justice with heart-stopping excerpts from student writing.

Some of the many accolades for Teaching for Joy and Justice:

• "Linda Christensen gets it," says Pedro Noguera, a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at New York University. "Christensen provides practical advice to teachers with an understanding that when our students learn to write, they experience a sense of joy and fulfillment."

• "Linda Christensen — consummate teacher and brilliant writer — shows us that, in the end, teaching well is about awakening and transformation," says Sonia Nieto, a Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

• "Teaching for Joy and Justice gives teachers the inspiration and 'how to' nitty-gritty that we crave," says Fay Peitzman, director of the UCLA Writing Project.

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Michael Trokan 
Rethinking Schools