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).
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The Probability of Miracles
by Wendy Wunder
Ages: 14+
Published: 2011
Publisher: razOrbill/Penguin
ISBN: 978-1-59514-368-6
Keywords: , Death, Family
Cam will never see her eighteenth birthday, but when she goes to Promise, Maine for the summer to please her mother and sister she becomes a person of hope.