Sarah Donovan’s 2016 book, Genocide Literature in Middle and Secondary Classrooms: Rhetoric, Witnessing, and Social Action in a Time of Standards and Accountability, is a timely look at her personal journey as a middle school English teacher as she develops curricular units and pedagogy to comply with the expanded 2005 Illinois mandate to teach about 20th and 21st century genocides, in addition to the Holocaust (already mandated in 1987).