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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Boys, Bears, and a Serious Pair of Hiking Boots
by Abby McDonald
Ages: 12+
Published: 2010
Publisher: Candlewick
ISBN: 978-0-7636-4382-9
Keywords: Environment
Seventeen-year-old Jenna hopes to rescue her summer by spending it in rural Canada with her godmother, but finds saving the environment and her romance more complicated than she had thought.