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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The Door in the Forest
by Roderick Townley
Ages: 12+
Published: 2011
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 978-0-375-85601-3
Keywords:
Fourteen-year-old Daniel, his younger brother, Wes, and their enigmatic new friend, Emily, are drawn to a mysterious, inaccessible island in hopes that it will somehow lead to saving their village from ruin. Will the soldiers who are hunting Emily prevent them from succeeding?