Mining the Riches of Story: Young Adult Literature and the Peaceable Classroom

Since that horrific day when thousands of people lost their lives in the World Trade Center destruction, our young people have not only had to face the violence and death of others in their schools and neighborhoods, but they have been forced to face the possibility of their own death at the hands of terrorists striking at random, bent on destroying them and their way of life. According to Katz, the site collapsed repeatedly under the weight of e-mailed stories from kids all over the country. [...]of his comments, he was called to the principal's office and forced to undergo five weeks of counseling or be expelled. A girl told of being escorted by two security guards to the nurse's office upon entering the school building wearing a trench coat, then being told by the nurse to undress in a private room, while the guards outside went through her coat.