A Smile as Big as the Moon: A Special Education Teacher, His Class, and Their Inspiring Journey Through U.S. Space Camp

9 best books like A Smile as Big as the Moon: A Special Education Teacher, His Class, and Their Inspiring Journey Through U.S. Space Camp (Mike Kersjes): The Perfect Husband, The Neighbor, The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life, The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom, Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential Through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching, What's Math Got to Do with It?: Helping Children Learn to Love Their Least Favorite Subject--and Why It's Important for America, Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers, Murder Beyond the Grave, Murder in Saint-Germain

The Perfect Husband

Author	Lisa Gardner
ISBN	0553587692

What would you do if the man of your dreams hides the soul of a killer?
Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of...But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison,...

The Neighbor

Author	Lisa Gardner
ISBN	0553807234

From a master of suspense comes a chilling new novel that explores the dangers lurking closer than you think. Because even in the perfect family, you never know what is going on behind closed doors...

This is what happened...
It was a case guaranteed to spark a media feeding frenzy—a young...

The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life

Author	Alex Bellos
ISBN	1451640099

From the bestselling author of Here’s Looking at Euclid, a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining narrative.

From triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical...

The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom

Author	James W. Stigler
ISBN	0684852748

By the time I finished reading this it had 50 sticky-notes protruding from the edges. Lots of very well-documented food for thought, based on the TIMSS study of 8th-graders around the world. In the 10th anniversary edition, they've studied a dozen or so countries, finding the US sorely lacking in math...

Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential Through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching

Author	Jo Boaler
ISBN	0470894520

Banish math anxiety and give students of all ages a clear roadmap to success. Mathematical Mindsets provides practical strategies and activities to help teachers and parents show all children, even those who are convinced that they are bad at math, that they can enjoy and succeed in math. Jo Boaler--Stanford...

What's Math Got to Do with It?: Helping Children Learn to Love Their Least Favorite Subject--and Why It's Important for America

Author	Jo Boaler
ISBN	0670019526

A recent assessment of mathematics performance around the world ranked the United States twenty-eighth out of forty countries in the study. When the level of spending was taken into account, we sank to the very bottom of the list. According to Jo Boaler, who was a professor of mathematics education...

Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers

Author

Jo Boaler

In this revolutionary book, a professor of education at Stanford University and acclaimed math educator who has spent decades studying the impact of beliefs and bias on education, reveals the six keys to unlocking learning potential, based on the latest scientific findings.

From the moment...

Murder Beyond the Grave

Author	James Patterson
ISBN	1538762080

A wealthy kidnapped man fights for his life and a real estate deal turns deadly in these two true crime thrillers that inspired Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series.


Murder Beyond the Grave (with Andrew Bourelle): Stephen Small has it all: a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three...

Murder in Saint-Germain

Author	Cara Black
ISBN	1616957700

Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aimee Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when she is accosted by Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals for...