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Hadar Dubowsky Ma’ayan regards Reading Girls: The Lives and Literacies of Adolescents as an important extension of Finder’s (1997) Just Girls: Hidden Literacies and Life in Junior High. Ma’ayan, a 5th grade teacher, conducts practitioner action research while taking a year off from teaching at Lincoln Middle School. Once a week, she met with a group of six racially and socioeconomically diverse 8th grade girls to participate in a Girls’ Literacy Discussion Group (GLDG). All of the participants actively engaged in literacy activities; however, they were not all academically successful. The purpose of her research was to “understand what role literacies play in students’ understandings of self and how we, as educators and parents, can use literacies to help girls, especially those marginalized in school, to build resiliency, self-agency, academic achievement, and personal growth” (p. 3). In addition to the GLDG, she met with the participants individually, observed them in and out of class, and collected artifacts. She utilized a multiple literacies framework “to investigate their sites, modes, and forms of literacy practices” (p. 15). Ma’ayan’s research demonstrates that using particular texts can facilitate honest discussions about subject matter helping to prepare students to meet life’s challenges and to experience academic success. In Chapter Three, Ma’ayan explores the body as a “text to communicate constructed identity” (p. 17). She describes how the participants read and performed markers such as music choices (e.g., dress, race, class and gender) to mark group affiliations. Chapter Four illustrates how the participants were influenced by mass media texts including music, movies, teen magazines, and corporate fashion. In Chapter Five, Ma’ayan explains how texts related to school, church, peers, and mothers contributed to the participants’ understandings about sexuality. In Chapter Six, Ma’ayan explores violence as text. She found that the girls received mixed messages and had a limited ability to critically question the messages they receive.

Time to Talk: A Review of Reading Girls: The Lives and Literacies of Adolescents