The Visitors

7 best books like The Visitors (Patricia C. McKissack): Al Capone Shines My Shoes, Al Capone Does My Homework, Enchantée, Never Fade, Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home, The Shadow Queen, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

Al Capone Shines My Shoes

Author	Gennifer Choldenko
ISBN	0803734603

Moose and the cons are about to get a lot closer in this much-anticipated sequel. It's 1935. Moose Flanagan lives on Alcatraz with his family, the other families of the guards, and a few hundred no-name hit men, con men, mad dog murderers and a handful of bank robbers too. And one of those cons has just done...

Al Capone Does My Homework

Author	Gennifer Choldenko
ISBN	0803734727

Alcatraz Island in the 1930s isn't the most normal place to grow up, but it's home for Moose Flanagan, his autistic sister, Natalie, and all the families of the guards. When Moose's dad gets promoted to Associate Warden, despite being an unlikely candidate, it's a big deal. But the cons have a point system...

Enchantée

Author

Gita Trelease

Paris in 1789 is a labyrinth of twisted streets, filled with beggars, thieves, revolutionaries—and magicians...

When smallpox kills her parents, Camille Durbonne must find a way to provide for her frail, naive sister while managing her volatile brother. Relying on petty magic—la...

Never Fade

Author	Alexandra Bracken
ISBN	1423157516

Ruby never asked for the abilities that almost cost her her life. Now she must call upon them on a daily basis, leading dangerous missions to bring down a corrupt government and breaking into the minds of her enemies. Other kids in the Children’s League call Ruby “Leader”, but she knows what she...

Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

Author

Pope Francis

On Care for Our Common Home (Laudato Si') is the new appeal from Pope Francis addressed to "every person living on this planet" for an inclusive dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet. Pope Francis calls the Church and the world to acknowledge the urgency of our environmental challenges...

The Shadow Queen

Author	C.J. Redwine
ISBN	0062360248

Lorelai Diederich, crown princess and fugitive at large, has one mission: kill the wicked queen who took both the Ravenspire throne and the life of her father. To do that, Lorelai needs to use the one weapon she and Queen Irina have in common—magic. She’ll have to be stronger, faster, and more powerful...

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

Author	Veronica Roth
ISBN	0062285688

Two years before Beatrice Prior made her choice, the sixteen-year-old son of Abnegation’s faction leader did the same. Tobias’s transfer to Dauntless is a chance to begin again. Here, he will not be called the name his parents gave him. Here, he will not let fear turn him into a cowering child.

Newly...