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.
To share feedback about the tool, please feel free to email bookcom@bankstreet.edu. To learn more about the CBC, visit https://www.bankstreet.edu/cbc/.
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all the earth, thrown to the sky
written by Joe R. Landsdale
Ages: 12+
Published: 2011
Publisher: Delacorte
ISBN: 978-0-385-73931-3
Keywords: Dust Bowl, Depression
Driven by the death of his parents and the Dust Storms of Oklahoma, Jack joins up with a classmate and her brother to escape---but encounters all sorts of adventure.