Additionally, KaaVonia has co-authored three books that focus specifically on teaching literature in schools and libraries: Young Adult Literature: Exploration, Evaluationand Appreciation (3rd ed.) (2014) with Katherine Bucher, Mathematics Literature in the K-8 Classroom and Library (2010) with Sueanne McKinney and Integrating Multicultural Literature in Libraries and Classrooms in Secondary Schools (2007) with Gail Dickinson.
Her articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries are on a variety of topics from Jacqueline Woodson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Sharon M. Draper, and Neoslave Narratives, to Walter Dean Myers, Black feminist criticism, The Bluest Eye, and June Jordan's Contribution to African American Children's Literature.
She is also the co-editor, with Lucy E. Bailey, of the book
series, Research
in Life Writing and Education (Information
Age Publishing).
Select Publications
Hinton, K. (2021). What are These
Biographies Not Saying?: Colorblindness in Biographies about Oprah
Winfrey? Children's Literature
Association Quarterly, 46(3), 244-262.
Hinton, K. (2020). “Do You See a [Hu]man Sitting Here?”:
Signifying in Monster. In V. Malo-Juvera & C. Hill (Ed.), Critical Explorations of Young Adult
Literature: Identifying and Critiquing the Canon (pp. 51-66). Routledge.
Hinton, K. (2019). Foreword. In S. T. Bickmore & S. P. Clark (Eds.),
On the Shoulders of Giants: Celebrating African American Authors of Young Adult Literature (pp.
vii-ix). Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
Hinton, K. & Suh, Y. (2019).
Foregrounding Collaboration in Disciplinary Literacy: Implications from JAAL, 2008–2017. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy,
63(3), pp. 279-287.
Hinton, K. (2018). Down Home:
Going South in Rita Williams-Garcia's Novels. Children's
Literature Association Quarterly, 43(3),
307-324.
