Professional Book Reviews: Insights and Inquiries into Children’s and Young Adult Literature

A discussion of four books current to literacy research regarding informational texts, this book review includes topics such as: —close reading of informational texts, teaching with text-based questions, social justice in the social studies classroom, and language and ethnography in education. —These various themes are connected by a desire to help teachers integrate informational texts in the classroom as mandated by the adoption of Common Core State Standards.