5 must-read teaching books like Love, Teach: Real Stories and Honest Advice to Keep Teachers from Crying Under Their Desks by Kelly Treleaven

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Love, Teach: Real Stories and Honest Advice to Keep Teachers from Crying Under Their Desks

By: Kelly Treleaven

4.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Hopeful, hilarious musings and serious advice for new teachers from the formerly anonymous blogger …

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1. Rules

By: Cynthia Lord

3.97

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This Newbery Honor Book is a heartfelt and witty story about feeling different and finding acceptan… read more

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"rules"

-Cynthia Lord, Rules

"No toys in the fish tank "

-Cynthia Lord, Rules

"Just this once, let it be easy."

-Cynthia Lord, Rules

"...choosing words is harder than I thought."

-Cynthia Lord, Rules

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2. The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)

By: Nancy Farmer

4.08

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

With undertones of vampires, Frankenstein, dragons' hoards, and killing fields, Matt's story turns … read more

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"After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?"

-Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)

"Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I'll deny it!"

-Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)

"Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it."

-Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)

"Some people make think slowly, but they're very thorough about it."

-Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)

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3. Counting by 7s

By: Holly Goldberg Sloan

4.14

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, … read more

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"books=comfort"

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

"[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence."

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

"I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them."

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

"What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens."

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

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4. The First Days of School: How to Be An Effective Teacher [with CD]

By: Harry K. Wong , Rosemary T. Wong

3.99

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

Over 3 million copies have been sold of the preeminent book on classroom management and teaching fo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
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5. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

By: Mary Roach

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh … read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare , Gareth Hinds

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Shakespeare's classic story of dark ambition, madness, and murder springs to life in a masterful ne… read more

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7. Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up

By: Naya Rivera

3.98

Format: 480 pages,

Funny and deeply personal, Sorry Not SorryrecountsGleestar Naya Rivera's successes and missteps, ur… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them

By: Ross W. Greene

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education

9. The Lost Gate (Mither Mages, #1)

By: Orson Scott Card

5.00

Format: 64 pages,

Danny North knew from early childhood that his family was different, and that he was different from… read more

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10. Holding Up the Universe

By: Jennifer Niven

4.07

Format: None pages,

Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed "America's Fattest Teen." But no one's… read more

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11. Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

By: Lizzy Goodman

4.16

Format: 622 pages, Hardcover

An intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

12. A Lesson Before Dying

By: Ernest J. Gaines

3.48

Format: None pages,

A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black… read more

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13. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

By: Ben Macintyre

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling… read more

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14. King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2)

By: William Shakespeare , David Scott Kastan

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry … read more

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15. Titus Andronicus

By: William Shakespeare

3.68

Format: 268 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful… read more

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"Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)"

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is."

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother."

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Now is a time to storm; why art thou still? TITUS ANDRONICUS: Ha, ha, ha! MARCUS ANDRONICUS: Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour. TITUS ANDRONICUS: Why, I have not another tear to shed:"

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

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16. The Wishing Bridge

By: Viola Shipman

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Once the hottest mergers and acquisitions executive in the company, Henrietta Wegner can see the am… read more

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"It's about history ... We're all shaped by it. Most run from it. But it's still in there ... How you come to terms with it is what matters."

-Viola Shipman, The Wishing Bridge

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17. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005: The Graphic Novel (I Survived Graphic Novels #6)

By: Lauren Tarshis

4.35

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

The story of a boy, a dog, and the storm of the century is brought vividly to life in this graphic … read more

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18. A Murder to Remember

By: Brynn Kelly

3.38

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

It was the perfect vacation fling. And then a body showed up. Jane Austen fan Amelia Bennett sne… read more

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19. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

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20. I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001: The Graphic Novel (I Survived Graphic Novels #4)

By: Lauren Tarshis

4.38

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

A gripping graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Attacks of Septe… read more

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21. Go See the Principal: True Tales from the School Trenches

By: Gerry Brooks

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

From an elementary school principal and popular YouTube personality, inspiration and humor for educ… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • education
  • teaching
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22. Walking Practice

By: Dolki Min

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more

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"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

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23. The Headmaster's List

By: Melissa de la Cruz

3.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

One of them was driving. One of them was high. One of them screamed. And one of them died. When fif… read more

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24. Eat, Pray, #FML

By: Gabrielle Stone

3.54

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

A year and a half into our marriage, I found out my husband had been having an affair with a ninete… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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25. We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport

By: Deborah Hopkinson

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson illuminates the true stories of Jewish children who fled Nazi… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession by Alexandra Robbins

26. The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

By: Alexandra Robbins

4.19

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

The hit national bestseller - a New York Times Spring Nonfiction Pick, USA Today "Hottest New Book… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
"Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"Teachers deserve to helm every committee determining school operations rather than policymakers who proclaim what should happen in the classroom despite never having taught in one."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"Teachers deserve a safe working environment in which violence is not tolerated from students, parents, or staff, and educators can report it and other transgressions without fear of retaliation."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"By the fall of 2021, schools across the country had lost a staggering number of teachers, paraeducators, substitutes, bus drivers, and other staff who quit, retired early, got sick, or died because o…"

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

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27. The Ridiculous Misadventures of a Single Girl (Eat, Pray, #FML Book 2)

By: Gabrielle Stone

4.32

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

When Eat, Pray, #FML was published, it quickly found its audience, a worldwide tribe of women who f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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28. Seven Rules for Breaking Hearts

By: Kristyn J. Miller

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Love breaks all the rules. Margo Anderson is sworn off commitment. Alongside her best friend, Jo… read more

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29. The Same Bright Stars

By: Ethan Joella

3.87

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s beachfront restaurant, and Jack has been at t… read more

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30. Love, Teach: Real Stories and Honest Advice to Keep Teachers from Crying Under Their Desks

By: Kelly Treleaven

4.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Hopeful, hilarious musings and serious advice for new teachers from the formerly anonymous blogger … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • education
  • teaching
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31. The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1)

By: India Holton

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historical-fantasy rom-co… read more

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12 best-selling nonfiction books like Love, Teach: Real Stories and Honest Advice to Keep Teachers from Crying Under Their Desks by Kelly Treleaven

Transform Your Habits

The First Days of School: How to Be An Effective Teacher [with CD]

Harry K. Wong , Rosemary T. Wong

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Mary Roach

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up

Naya Rivera

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them

Ross W. Greene

3.50

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Teacher Misery: Helicopter Parents, Special Snowflakes and Other Bullshit

Jane Morris

4.25

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Go See the Principal: True Tales from the School Trenches

Gerry Brooks

4.08

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The Wild Card: 7 Steps to an Educator's Creative Breakthrough

Wade King

4.12

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Christina Hwang Dudley

3.85

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