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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Gooney Bird is So Absurd
by Lois Lowry
Illustrator: Middy Thomas
Ages: 6+
Published: 2009
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 978-0-547-11967-0
Keywords: School Stories
With Mrs. Pidgeon, their teacher, the second graders work their way through the year with poetry, projects, and pleasure. Charcoal illustrations bring the classroom to life.