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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All My Noble Dreams and then What Happens
by Gloria Whelan
Ages: 12+
Published: 2013
Publisher: Paula Wiseman/S&S
ISBN: 978-1-4424-4976-3
Keywords: Read-Aloud, Colonial India
In India in 1920, Rosalind struggles to balance the world of Imperial Britain and of a colonized country fighting for independence under Gandhi's leadership.