Inside Mrs. B.'s Classroom: Courage, Hope, and Learning on Chicago's South Side

8 best books like Inside Mrs. B.'s Classroom: Courage, Hope, and Learning on Chicago's South Side (Leslie Baldacci): Trickster's Choice, The Queen of Blood, Trickster's Queen, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, The Homecoming, One Was Lost, The Colors of All the Cattle, A Conspiracy in Belgravia

Trickster's Choice

Author

Tamora Pierce

Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, it is this skill that...

The Queen of Blood

Author

Sarah Beth Durst

An idealistic young student and a banished warrior become allies in a battle to save their realm in this first book of a mesmerizing epic fantasy series, filled with political intrigue, violent magic, malevolent spirits, and thrilling adventure

Everything has a spirit: the willow tree with...

Trickster's Queen

Author

Tamora Pierce

Aly’s adventure continues…. No longer a slave, Alanna’s daughter is now spying as part of an underground rebellion against the colonial rulers of the Copper Isles. The people in the rebellion believe that a prophecy in which a new queen will rise up to take the throne is about to be realized. Aly...

How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

Author	Paul Tough
ISBN	0547564651

Why do some children succeed while others fail?

The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: Success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs.

But in "How Children Succeed," Paul Tough argues for a very different...

The Homecoming

Author	Andrew Pyper
ISBN	1982108975

Bestselling author Andrew Pyper returns with a riveting psychological thriller about how the people you’ve known your whole life can suddenly become strangers.

What if everything you knew about the people you loved was a lie?

After the death of their absentee father, Aaron and...

One Was Lost

Author	Natalie D. Richards
ISBN	1492615749

Damaged. Deceptive. Dangerous. Darling. Are they labels or a warning? The answer could cost Sera everything.

Murder, justice, and revenge were so not a part of the plan when Sera set out on her senior camping trip. After all, hiking through the woods is supposed to be safe and uneventful.

Then...

The Colors of All the Cattle

Author	Alexander McCall Smith
ISBN	1524747807

In this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe finds herself running for office--much to her dismay.

When Mma Potokwane suggests to Mma Ramotswe that she run for a seat on the Gaborone City Council, Mma Ramotswe is at first...

A Conspiracy in Belgravia

Author

Sherry Thomas

The game is afoot as Charlotte Holmes returns in the atmospheric second novel in New York Times bestseller Sherry Thomas's Victorian-set Lady Sherlock series.

Being shunned by Society gives Charlotte Holmes the time and freedom to put her extraordinary powers of deduction to good use. As...