The Mockingbird Next Door - Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills
Beyond the Hole in the Wall Sugata Mitra's experiment about the power of self-organized learning.
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 that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character: skills like perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, optimism, and self-control.