Introduction : more than white noise : mining the peritext for literacy engagement / Shelbie Witte Grounding our work theoretically : the peritextual literacy framework / Melissa Gross Peritext and ya nonfiction : a case study of "The president has been shot!" / Don Latham Peritextual bridges : predicting plot and theme in Boxers and saints / Crag Hill When to judge a book by its cover / Jill Slay Critiquing, resisting, and remixing promotional peritextual elements of YA fiction / Sean P. Connors and Erin Daugherty Navigating Kafka's The metamorphosis using visual peritextual elements / Katie Rybakova A sense of time and place : using the author's note in a historical fiction novel to introduce primary sources and teach critical thinking / Rebecca Weber and Kevin Dyke Classroom discourse about illustrated dust jackets in a first-grade classroom / Luciana C. de Oliveira, Loren Jones, and Sharon L. Smith Cathy's book and the boundaries of books in a participatory age : exploring pedagogies and paratexts in expansive contexts / Antero Garcia and Bud Hunt Critical reading of online news articles using peritext elements / Hyerin Bak and Josie McDaniel (Re)covering disney : media peritexts and media literacy in the classroom / Peter Kunze Leading students to exit through the gift shop : reading Banksy's Public art through documentary film and director's cuts / Jennifer S. Dail, Kyle Jones, and Glenn Chance