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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Kepler's Dream
by Juliet Bell
Ages: 9+
Published: 2012
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin
ISBN: 978-0-399-25645-5
Keywords: Astronomy, Family
Eleven-year-old Ella has an unexpectedly good summer with her forbidding Grandmother as she makes a friend while learning about stars and solving a mystery.