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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Wild Life
by Cynthia DeFelice
Ages: 9+
Published: 2011
Publisher: FSG
ISBN: 978-0-374-38001-4
Keywords: Survival
When twelve-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he is sent to live in North Dakota with his grandparents, and then learns about survival the hard way, with the help of a dog he rescues.