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Muhammad, G. E. (2012). Creating spaces for Black adolescent girls to "write it out!" Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 56(3), 203-211.
Polleck, J. N., & Epstein, T. (2015). Affirmation, analysis, and agency: Book clubs as spaces for critical conversations with young adolescent women of color. Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts, 54(1), 5.
Reese, L., Garnier, H., Gallimore, R., & Goldenberg, C. (2000). Longitudinal analysis of the antecedents of emergent Spanish literacy and middle-school English reading achievement of Spanish-speaking students. American Educational Research Journal, 37(3), 633-662.
Scharber, C. (2009). Online book clubs: Bridges between old and new literacies practices. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 52(5), 433-437.
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