Welcome to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's (CBC) Searchable Best Books List, a tool designed to help educators, families, librarians, and others access developmentally appropriate and engaging books for young readers (ages birth - 18).

Our online Searchable Best Books List draws from the committee's annual Best Children's Books of the Year-beginning with the list of books published in 2000-with each featuring more than 600 high-quality titles for young readers.

To share feedback about the tool, please feel free to email bookcom@bankstreet.edu. To learn more about the CBC, visit https://www.bankstreet.edu/cbc/.

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The Executioner's Daughter
by Laura E. Williams
Ages: 12+
Published: 2000
Lily is dismayed to learn that she is expected to become her father's assistant after the death of her mother. Convincing medieval setting.

The Last Book in the Universe
by Rodman Philbrick
Ages: 12+
Published: 2000
An innovative tale of the future after “the big shake,” in a remarkable invented vocabulary.

The Playmaker
by J.B. Cheaney
Ages: 12+
Published: 2000
In sixteenth-century London, a young apprentice to a company of players finds himself ensnared in a dangerous political plot.

Waiting for Deliverance
by Betsy Urban
Ages: 12+
Published: 2000
When Livy and her cousin Ephraim are auctioned off as paupers in 1793, her preconceived notions about Indians are challenged by her new family.

Wolf Tower
by Tanith Lee
Ages: 12+
Published: 2000
One bold, intelligent heroine and many journeys and adventures--a great fantasy.

Year of the Griffin
by Diana Wynne Jones
Ages: 12+
Published: 2000
For Harry Potter fans, all the adventures of Elda and her friends through her first year at Wizard's University.