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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To Come and Go Like Magic
by Katie Pickard Fawcett
Ages: 12+
Published: 2010
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 978-0-375-85846-8
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Lyrical vignettes of an important year in the life of a twelve-year-old Chilean girl show how she grows up in a small Kentucky town in the 70s and comes to understand her family, friends, and home.