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.
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Chasing Shadows
by Swati Avasthi
Illustrator: Craig Phillips
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Can their shared love of free-running and comic books help Corey's twin sister and his girlfriend solve and survive Corey's murder? Part graphic, part traditional novel.
by Swati Avasthi
Illustrator: Craig Phillips
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Can their shared love of free-running and comic books help Corey's twin sister and his girlfriend solve and survive Corey's murder? Part graphic, part traditional novel.
Doing It Right
by Bronwen Pardes
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
This frank and down-to-earth compendium for teens explains everything they might want to know about sex but were afraid to ask.
by Bronwen Pardes
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
This frank and down-to-earth compendium for teens explains everything they might want to know about sex but were afraid to ask.
Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
When a new girl, bullied for her weight and unconventional style, and a half-Korean boy into music and comics sit together on the bus, an unlikely romance develops.
by Rainbow Rowell
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
When a new girl, bullied for her weight and unconventional style, and a half-Korean boy into music and comics sit together on the bus, an unlikely romance develops.
Famous Last Words
by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
When sixteen-year-old Sam, an aspiring journalist, begins her internship at a local newspaper, she never expects that she'll be writing obituaries--or that several other surprises are in store.
by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
When sixteen-year-old Sam, an aspiring journalist, begins her internship at a local newspaper, she never expects that she'll be writing obituaries--or that several other surprises are in store.
Fangirl
by Rainbow Rowell
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Twins Cath and Wren have always written fan fiction together. Now in college, extrovert Wren wants independence while introvert Cath wants to continue hiding behind her stories.
by Rainbow Rowell
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Twins Cath and Wren have always written fan fiction together. Now in college, extrovert Wren wants independence while introvert Cath wants to continue hiding behind her stories.
Far Far Away
by Tom McNeal
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Jacob Grimm is stuck in purgatory and believes that if he helps Jeremy Johnson Johnson, he will pass to the other side.
by Tom McNeal
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Jacob Grimm is stuck in purgatory and believes that if he helps Jeremy Johnson Johnson, he will pass to the other side.
Find Me
by Romily Bernard
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Using her computer expertise, a skilled teenage computer hacker must find the man threatening her sister's safety.
by Romily Bernard
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Using her computer expertise, a skilled teenage computer hacker must find the man threatening her sister's safety.
Flowers in the Sky
by Lynn Joseph
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Nina leaves her beloved Dominican Republic for a better life in New York, but her new life is more complicated than she expected.
by Lynn Joseph
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Nina leaves her beloved Dominican Republic for a better life in New York, but her new life is more complicated than she expected.
Foul Trouble
by John Feinstein
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
College recruiters are not the only ones competing for the attention of Terrell Jamerson, the top-ranked high school basketball player in the country. How can he decide whom to trust?
by John Feinstein
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
College recruiters are not the only ones competing for the attention of Terrell Jamerson, the top-ranked high school basketball player in the country. How can he decide whom to trust?
Freakboy
by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Brendan has a girlfriend, but more and more wants to be a girl, and struggles to come to terms with what it all means.
by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Brendan has a girlfriend, but more and more wants to be a girl, and struggles to come to terms with what it all means.
Gadget Girl
by Suzanne Kamata
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Fourteen-year-old Aiko, an aspiring manga artist with cerebral palsy, dreams of meeting the father she has never known.
by Suzanne Kamata
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Fourteen-year-old Aiko, an aspiring manga artist with cerebral palsy, dreams of meeting the father she has never known.
God Got a Dog
by Cynthia Rylant
Illustrator: Marla Frazee
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
God lives as various people reflecting a diversity of human experience and the little bit of divinity in everyone. Free verse with detailed pencil and gouache illustrations.
by Cynthia Rylant
Illustrator: Marla Frazee
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
God lives as various people reflecting a diversity of human experience and the little bit of divinity in everyone. Free verse with detailed pencil and gouache illustrations.
Hideous Love
by Stephanie Hemphill
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
A free verse novel about Mary Shelley, a teenager whose love story led her to write the gothic novel “Frankenstein.”
by Stephanie Hemphill
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
A free verse novel about Mary Shelley, a teenager whose love story led her to write the gothic novel “Frankenstein.”
How To Love
by Katie Cotugno
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
When Sawyer reappears in Reena's life after two years, he finds they now have a daughter, and Reena must decide what place Sawyer has in their lives.
by Katie Cotugno
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
When Sawyer reappears in Reena's life after two years, he finds they now have a daughter, and Reena must decide what place Sawyer has in their lives.
If You Find Me
by Emily Murdoch
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
For years Carey and her sister lived hidden away in an abandoned camper in the woods. Then their mentally ill mother disappears. What will become of them?
by Emily Murdoch
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
For years Carey and her sister lived hidden away in an abandoned camper in the woods. Then their mentally ill mother disappears. What will become of them?
Jerusalem
by Boaz Yakin
Illustrator: Nick Bertozzi
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Three generations of a family work towards the creation of the Israeli state.
by Boaz Yakin
Illustrator: Nick Bertozzi
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Three generations of a family work towards the creation of the Israeli state.
Kindness For Weakness
by Shawn Goodman
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
In a brutal juvenile detention center, a fifteen-year-old boy learns harsh lessons about friendship and manhood.
by Shawn Goodman
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
In a brutal juvenile detention center, a fifteen-year-old boy learns harsh lessons about friendship and manhood.
Loud Awake and Lost
by Adele Griffin
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
After seventeen-year-old Ember barely survives a near fatal car accident, she must overcome severe memory loss to piece together what happened.
by Adele Griffin
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
After seventeen-year-old Ember barely survives a near fatal car accident, she must overcome severe memory loss to piece together what happened.
Maggot Moon
by Sally Gardner
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Standish Treadwell lives with his Grandpa in punitive Zone 7. Bullies at school(teachers included), the man in the leather coat watching, Motherland propaganda---what is real?
by Sally Gardner
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Standish Treadwell lives with his Grandpa in punitive Zone 7. Bullies at school(teachers included), the man in the leather coat watching, Motherland propaganda---what is real?
Me, Him, Them and It
by Caela Carter
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Sixteen-year-old Evelyn must confront the underlying causes for her unwanted pregnancy and its impact on herself, the baby, and her extended family.
by Caela Carter
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Sixteen-year-old Evelyn must confront the underlying causes for her unwanted pregnancy and its impact on herself, the baby, and her extended family.
More Than This
by Patrick Ness
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Teen Seth awakens in his early childhood hometown in England--now apparently deserted. Did he drown? Is he dead?
by Patrick Ness
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Teen Seth awakens in his early childhood hometown in England--now apparently deserted. Did he drown? Is he dead?
Mortal Fire
by Elizabeth Knox
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
ARC Sixteen-year-old New Zealander Canny discovers the source of her remarkable magical abilities, connections to the natural world, and the human spirit.
by Elizabeth Knox
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
ARC Sixteen-year-old New Zealander Canny discovers the source of her remarkable magical abilities, connections to the natural world, and the human spirit.
My Beautiful Hippie
by Janet Nichols Lynch
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
In 1967 San Francisco, Joanne falls for a hippie, but her parents don't approve.
by Janet Nichols Lynch
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
In 1967 San Francisco, Joanne falls for a hippie, but her parents don't approve.
My Chemical Mountain
by Corina Vacco
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Fourteen-year-old Jason and his friends confront the corporations that are polluting and destroying their town.
by Corina Vacco
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Fourteen-year-old Jason and his friends confront the corporations that are polluting and destroying their town.
Nantucket Blue
by Leila Howland
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Seventeen-year-old Cricket's dream of summer on Nantucket gets derailed when tragedy strikes her best friend's family. An unexpected love interest promises to turn the tide.
by Leila Howland
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Seventeen-year-old Cricket's dream of summer on Nantucket gets derailed when tragedy strikes her best friend's family. An unexpected love interest promises to turn the tide.