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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Private Peaceful
by Michael Morpurgo
Ages: 12+
Published: 2004
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 0-439-63648-5
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During world War I, fourteen-year-old Thomas lies about his age to enlist in the British army with his older brother---and faces life-changing harrowing experiences.