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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Ashes to Ashes

by Melissa Walker

Ages: 14+

Published: 2014

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins

ISBN: 978-0-06-207734-9

Keywords: Friendship, Death, Love

When a high school sophomore picks up her cell phone while driving, it results in a tragic accident that catapults her to the Prism, a space beyond Earth where good and evil persist.