Among Schoolchildren

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Among Schoolchildren

by Tracy Kidder

Recommendations from our site

Other books by Tracy Kidder

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder

Our most recommended books

Middlemarch by George Eliot

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

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Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder

The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë