Part 1 Boys and girls as readers and writers: what we know; Part 2 Boys and girls as readers: what we can do; Chapter 1 On the Shelf: Inventorying By the Teacher; Chapter 2 Off The Shelf: Inventorying By and With Students; Chapter 3 A Matter of Choice/Choice Matters to Readers; Chapter 4 Reading Across Purposes; Chapter 5 Validating the Negative; Chapter 6 Becoming mapmakers of a new world: rethinking story and character maps; Chapter 7 Between the two of us—author and authority: encouraging interpretive reading; Chapter 8 Exploring Multiple Perspectives; Chapter 9 Understanding the Functions of Text Features; Chapter 10 Linking Reading In the Content Areas to Personal and Prior Knowledge; Part 3 Boys and girls as writers: what we can do; Chapter 11 Enhancing Expressive Writing; Chapter 12 Getting to the point versus guiding readers toward the point when writing to inform; Chapter 13 Assertion and negotiation: helping students “make a case” when writing to persuade; Chapter 14 Get the picture: development at the planning stage of writing; Chapter 15 A Matter of Choice/ Choice Matters to Writers; Chapter 16 Author’s craft and the making of meaning: using text features in writing; Chapter 17 Selling/Dispelling Gender Stereotypes; Chapter 18 Writing as an Aggressive/Transgressive Act; Chapter 19 Retelling Counts; Chapter 20 Postscript: beyond the page and beyond these pages;