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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You Come to Yokum
by Carol Otis Hurst
Illustrator: Kay Life
Ages: 9+
Published: 2005
Publisher: HMC
ISBN: 0-618-55122-0
Keywords: Suffragettes
In the early 1920s, two brothers observe their mother's struggles to gather support for women's right to vote as they run a lodge in western Massachusetts.