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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A Mad, Wicked Folly
by Sharon Biggs Waller
Ages: 14+
Published: 2014
Publisher: Viking/Penguin
ISBN: 978-0-670-01468-2
Keywords: Suffragettes, Social class, pre-Raphaelites
In 1909 London, seventeen-year-old Vicky struggles against the social constraints that limit women's behavior as she pursues her dream of studying at the Royal College of Art.