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/.

How to Perform a Search and Save a List

Here Come the Girl Scouts!

by Shana Corey

Illustrator: Hadley Hooper

Ages: 6+

Published: 2012

Publisher: Scholastic

ISBN: 978-0-545-34278-0

Keywords: Girl Scouts

Celebrating their 100th anniversary, the Girl Scouts began as the idea of the adventurous Juliet Gordon Low and grew to be an organization with millions of members nationwide. Warm mixed-media illustrations.