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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Bird in a Box
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Ages: 12+
Published: 2011
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 978-0-316-07403-2
Keywords: Diversity, Read-Aloud
Three African-American children, each dealing with different losses and cherishing different dreams, become friends and find hope in each other--and in the triumph of Joe Louis.