Misreading Masculinity
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The Believing Game; The "Crisis" in Boyhood; Making Sense of the Gender Gap; The Case Against Literacy; Taste and Distaste; Violence and Innocence; Misreading Violence; Making Way for Captain Underpants; A Big Enough Room.

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Thomas Newkirk is the bestselling author of Minds Made for Stories along with numerous other Heinemann titles, including Writing Unbound, Embarrassment, The Art of Slow Reading, The Performance of Self in Student Writing (winner of the NCTE's David H. Russell Award), and Misreading Masculinity. He taught writing at the University of New Hampshire for thirty-nine years, and founded the New Hampshire Literacy Institutes, a summer program for teachers. In addition to working as a teacher, writer, and editor, he has served as the chair of his local school board for seven years.

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[Tom Newkirk] systematically asks us to rethink our beliefs, our choices, our interactions--not just with boys but with all children.

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