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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Strands of Bronze and Gold

by Jane Nickerson

Ages: 14+

Published: 2013

Publisher: Knopf/Random House

ISBN: 978-0-307-97598-0

Keywords: Orphans, Fairy Tales, Slavery

After the death of her father in 1855, seventeen-year-old Sophia is invited to live with her godfather at his gothic mansion in Mississippi.