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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Monsoon Summer
by Mitali Perkins
Ages: 12+
Published: 2004
Publisher: Delacorte
ISBN: 0-385-73123-X
Keywords: India
“Jazz” Gardner reluctantly leaves California for a life changing summer in India helping her family at the orphanage that had once been her mother's home.