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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A Volcano Beneath the Snow
by Albert Marrin
Ages: 14+
Published: 2014
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf/Random House
ISBN: 978-0-307-98152-3
Keywords: Abolitionists, Slavery
Passionate abolitionist John Brown, whose seizure of the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in 1859 played a crucial role in bringing about the Civil War, is a hero to many. But is “righteous violence” ever really justified? Archival illustrations and photographs.