Books like The trading game by Alfred Slote

A self‑taught stock trader chronicles the rise and fall of a popular New York brokerage career, revealing insider tactics and the hard lessons learned in trading himself.

A young girl discovers her love for music and friendship through unexpected circumstances while auditioning for top music schools in New York City.

A tender sequel to Skylark, Caleb's Story follows the Witting family’s prairie farm as a mysterious stranger reveals himself to be their long‑lost grandfather, prompting Jacob to confront his past.

When a boy named Joe Stoshack discovers he can time‑travel, he hops back to the 1932 World Series to uncover whether Babe Ruth actually called his famous home‑run or simply predicted it.

Learn William J. O’Neil’s proven CAN SLIM® stock‑investing system, a 7‑step method for spotting winners and avoiding common mistakes, based on a comprehensive study of market leaders from 1880 to 2009.

In the Boxcar Children series, the Alden siblings investigate the disappearance of their late grandmother’s necklace, combining family bonds, detective work, and suspense in this juvenile mystery.

Thomas and his granddad enjoy baseball and fishing in their Florida home, but the arrival of Great‑aunt Linzy brings unexpected change to their quiet life.

As his life nears its end, Jess’s grandfather journeys back to the river of his youth to complete a long‑delayed painting, seeking to honor memory and art before he dies.

A young white boy in 1955 Mississippi confronts the reality of racism while the Emmett Till trial unfolds, reshaping his understanding of justice and family values.

When the Watson family settles in the coal‑mining town of Stoneygate to care for Kit’s widowed grandfather, his new friend John Askew invites him into the mines, where they play a game called "Death" and confront the ghostly past of generations of miners.

"The 1980s witnessed a lemming-like rush into the sea of debt on the part of the American industrial and financial communities, with consequences we are only beginning to appreciate. But the speculative frenzy of the eighties didn't just happen. It was the culmination of a long cycle of slow relaxation of credit practices--the subject of James Grant's brilliant, clear-eyed history of American finance. Two long-running trends converged in the 1980s to create one of our greatest speculative booms: the democratization of credit and the socialization of risk. At the turn of the century, it was almost impossible for the average working person to get a loan. In the 1980s, it was almost impossible to refuse one. As the pace of lending grew, the government undertook to bear more and more of the creditors' risk--a pattern, begun in the Progressive era, which reached full flower in the "conservative" administration of Ronald Reagan. Based on original scholarship as well as firsthand observation, Grant's book puts our recent love affair with debt in an entirely fresh, often chilling, perspective. The result is required--and wickedly entertaining--reading for everyone who wants or needs to understand how the world really works"--Jacket.