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This book is the representation of a narrative inquiry conducted with five ninth grade boys that were identified as displaying multiple literacies, looking specifically at how these boys storied their literate identities. After the stories were collected, the author conducted several negotiation sessions with the boys and their parents at the school, as well as in their homes. These negotiations facilitated a methodological concept that the book terms distillation: an interim step for determining which narratives in an inquiry are emblematic. Several lenses for conceptualizing the stories of these boys were made evident during the research. An analysis of the collected stories revealed that the boys' stories moved beyond current conceptions of either identity or literacy alone and instead offered a way of defining literate identity as simultaneously being and doing literacy. In light of this definition, the boys' stories revealed plotlines that together described literate identity as a form of capital. The question of how the boys story themselves, the original research question, is ultimately answered using a meta-narrative, or archetype, where a hero distributes a boon, or gift to his society. The implications for this research include a need to examine classroom space in order to facilitate the deployment of literate identity capital, as well as space for living out the meta-narratives that these boys are composing.

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"""I want readers to sample Mary's 'simply elegant' writing style and the kinds of knowledge held and expressed in her storying and restorying. Mostly, I want to compel readers to turn the page and begin reading this important work that fills a gaping hole in the literature and in the field. You will not be disappointed.(Cheryl J. Craig, University of Houston)"". This book is a shining reach to a wider audience for Mary's teaching. The impulse of this project has been to learn more by crafting a narrative inquiry to teach us more about boys' literate identities. (Jill Terry Rudy, Brigham Young University)"

I want readers to sample Mary's 'simply elegant' writing style and the kinds of knowledge held and expressed in her storying and restorying. Mostly, I want to compel readers to turn the page and begin reading this important work that fills a gaping hole in the literature and in the field. You will not be disappointed.(Cheryl J. Craig, University of Houston) . This book is a shining reach to a wider audience for Mary's teaching. The impulse of this project has been to learn more by crafting a narrative inquiry to teach us more about boys' literate identities. (Jill Terry Rudy, Brigham Young University)

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