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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Smells Like Dog
by Suzanne Selfors
Ages: 9+
Published: 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 978-0-316-04398-4
Keywords: Dogs
Homer Pudding, a twelve-year-old aspiring treasure hunter, runs away to find out the identity of the most important thing his explorer uncle left him when he died. An engaging adventure spoof.