Review of Adolescent Literacy: Integrating the Sciences of Reading and Writing in Grades 4-12, by S. Kerkhoff

Gamze Ar is a lecturer in the School of Foreign Languages at Bartın University, Türkiye. She earned her Ph.D. in American Culture and Literature from Ege University. During her doctoral studies, she served as a visiting scholar in the Department of Teaching and Learning at New York University, where her research focused on African American children’s literature, Black identity, and cultural representation in Jacqueline Woodson’s picture books. Her broader research interests include African American literature, children’s and young adult literature, adolescent literacy, ethnic autobiography, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, and the intersections of literature and visual culture. She has published articles on literary and cultural representations of race, ethnicity, identity, gender, and the environment. Her current research explores Black identity in children’s literature, representations of Black hair, digital storytelling, and the implications of artificial intelligence for literature, literacy, and cultural representation.