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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So Much It Hurts
by Monique Polak
Ages: 14+
Published: 2013
Publisher: Orca
ISBN: 978-1-4598-0136-3
Keywords: Absent fathers, Abuse, Shakespeare
A seventeen-year-old aspiring actress falls in love with an older man. She makes excuses for his abusive behavior until she finally learns to “tender yourself more dearly.”