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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On Viney's Mountain
by Joan Donaldson
Ages: 12+
Published: 2009
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 978-0-8234-2129-9
Keywords: appalachia
In 1880 Tennessee, an expert weaver and spunky young woman resents the English “foreigners” until she fall unpredictably in love.