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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Possum Summer

by Jen K. Blom

Illustrator: Omar Rayyan

Ages: 9+

Published: 2011

Publisher: Holiday House

ISBN: 978-0-8234-2331-6

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An eleven-year-old girl's love of animals leads her to make bad, sometimes dangerous choices in this heart-warming story of life on an Oklahoma cattle ranch.