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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The Year of the Book
by Andrea Cheng
Illustrator: Abigail Halpin
Ages: 6+
Published: 2012
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/HMH
ISBN: 978-0-547-68463-5
Keywords: Diversity
Books and crafts help Chinese-American Anna navigate the challenge of family, friends, and fourth grade. Pen and ink illustrations. (An error in the Chinese on page 43, noted by a committee member, will be corrected by the publisher in the next printing.)