Why are adults reading children's fiction? The Crossover Novel delves into the heart of the controversy over "crossover fiction"--the fiction that has crossed from children to adult readers over the millennial decade, and continues to do so today. This book argues that the popularity of cross-reading cannot simply be attributed to clever marketing or to the "dumbing down" of adult readers, as some have claimed. Crossover fiction may be understood as an extension of "kiddulthood," the celebration of youth culture in a modern, capitalist society that places a premium on speed, flexibility, and lightness. In other respects, however, as Falconer persuasively argues, it can be understood as capitalism's antithesis: the expression of a desire for personal rootedness and for communally shared truths.

Teaching Reading to Adult English Language Learners: A Reading Instruction Staff Development Program was developed with a federal English Literacy and Civics Education grant from the Office of Adult Education and Literacy of the Virginia Department of Education. The purpose of this project was to develop and field-test a series of staff development workshops to support instructors of adult English language learners in constructing an understanding of the foundations of reading in a second language and appropriate reading instruction for adult second language learners. Such an understanding is necessary to implement adult ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) content standards and to prepare learners for reading assessments. A companion project for reading instructors of adult native English speakers, Introduction to Research-Based Adult Reading Instruction, was completed in 2004.

New American Streamline is an intensive, three-level series geared to the interests and needs of adult and young adult students of English as a second or foreign language. Its use of American language, culture, and humor makes it ideal for students of American English everywhere.