KaaVonia Hinton, Ph.D. is a professor in the Darden College of Education & Professional Studies at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she serves as Chair of the Teaching & Learning Department. She is the author of Angela Johnson: Poetic Prose (2006) and Sharon M. Draper: Embracing Literacy (2009), and co-author (with Gail K. Dickinson) of Integrating Multicultural Literature in Libraries and Classrooms in Secondary Schools (2007) and (with Katherine T. Bucher) of Young Adult Literature:Exploration, Evaluation, and Appreciation (Prentice Hall, 2009). Her reviews of young adult and children's literature have been published in VOYA and ForeWord Magazine.Her recent scholarship includes: Hinton, K., and Suh, Y. (2019). Foregrounding collaboration in disciplinary literacy: Implications from JAAL, 2008–2017. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Hinton-Johnson, K. (2018). Down Home : Going South in Rita Williams-Garcia's Novels. Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 43 (3), pp. 307-324.Hinton-Johnson, K., and Branyon, A. P. (2017). "Your Hair Ain't Naughty:" Representations of Women in Rita Williams-Garcia's Novels. Lion and the Unicorn, 43 (3), pp. 327-343.Hinton-Johnson, K., Suh, Y., O'Hearn, M. R., and Colon-Brown, L. (2016). Fostering Habits of Mind: A Framework for Reading Historical Nonfiction Illustrated by the Case of Hitler Youth. Voices from the Middle, 23 (3), pp. 38-44.Hinton-Johnson, K., and Branyon, A. P. (2016). Love Is True-Blue: Grandmothering in Rita Williams-Garcia’s One Crazy Summer and P.S. Be Eleven. Middle School Journal, 47 (4), pp. 15-22.Suh, Y., and Hinton-Johnson, K. (2015). Mirroring Ourselves: Teacher Educators of Color Reading Multicultural Texts. Issues in Teacher Education, 24 (2), pp. 23-42.Hinton-Johnson, K., Suh, Y., Colón-Brown, L., and O'Hearn, M. (2014). Historical Fiction in English and Social Studies Classrooms: Is It a Natural Marriage?. English Journal, 103 (3), pp. 22-27.Find out more at https://www.odu.edu/directory/people/k/khintonj#profiletab=1Read more about this authorRead less about this author