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).
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Octavia Boone's Big Questions about Life, the Universe, and Everything
by Rebecca Rupp
Ages: 9+
Published: 2010
Publisher: Candlewick
ISBN: 978-0-7636-4491-8
Keywords: Religion
When seventh-grader Octavia's questions aren't answered by her mother's conservative Christian faith or her father's devotion to Thoreau, she develops a scene experiment to test the existence of God.