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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This Song Will Save Your Life
by Leila Sales
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-374-35138-0
Keywords: Friendship, Bullies, Music
When sixteen-year-old Elise, bullied and miserable, discovers a passion and the talent to be a disc jockey, it makes her life even more complicated. Will she find herself?