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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Grasshopper Jungle

by Andrew Smith

Ages: 14+

Published: 2014

Publisher: Dutton Children's Books/Penguin

ISBN: 978-0-525-42603-5

Keywords: SExuality, Friendship

Sexually conflicted high schooler Austin narrates this fantastic tale of 412-E, a substance that breeds “unstoppable soldiers” in Ealing, Iowa. Is the apocalypse near?