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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Trapped
by Michael Northrop
Ages: 12+
Published: 2011
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 978-0-545-21012-6
Keywords: Survival
Seven resourceful teens are trapped in their Connecticut high school when the ‘blizzard of the century' shuts down transportation, power, and communication.