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Focuses on using high quality children's books to create engaging and meaningful tasks that deepen mathematics learning for pre-K and elementary students. With the perspective of practice based on theory, the authors provide resources to help teachers develop knowledge for deciding why, when and how to incorporate children's literature effectively.

A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds a career. Both the story of her steady rise into the professional class and a parallel history of unsuitable exes, this memoir reminds us how accidental even a good life can be.

Originally published: Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2004.

Raised in the Delta of Mississippi, Jan Cowan is repeatedly molested by her mother's lesbian lover, Judy Christine Hays, a small-town cop. Immediately after finishing high school, Jan flees Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee. Patterned after her molester, Jan embarks on a career with the Memphis Police Department where she becomes a noted homicide detective. At the age of thirty-three, an unexpected occurrence triggers Jan's suppressed memories...

Raised in the Delta of Mississippi, Jan Cowan is repeatedly molested by her mother's lesbian lover, Judy Christine Hays, a small-town cop. Immediately after finishing high school, Jan flees Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee. Patterned after her molester, Jan embarks on a career with the Memphis Police Department where she becomes a noted homicide detective. At the age of thirty-three, an unexpected occurrence triggers Jan's suppressed memories...

After moving to a humble cottage outside of a tiny Texas town, Debra Monroe rids herself of an abusive husband and, finally, after several disheartening letdowns, is able to adopt her beautiful baby daughter, Marie. Though elated, she faces new trials as a white mother of a black child.

A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds a career. Both the story of her steady rise into the professional class and a parallel history of unsuitable exes, this memoir reminds us how accidental even a good life can be.