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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Is It Night or Day?
by Fern Schumer Chapman
Ages: 9+
Published: 2010
Publisher: FSG
ISBN: 978-0-374-17744-7
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In 1938, fearing Hitler's persecution, twelve-year-old Edith is sent alone to the United States where she encounters anti-Semitism and difficult relations with her uncle's family, and experiences life in a foreign country.