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.

To share feedback about the tool, please feel free to email bookcom@bankstreet.edu. To learn more about the CBC, visit https://www.bankstreet.edu/cbc/.

How to Perform a Search and Save a List

Because They Marched

by Russell Freedman

Ages: 12+

Published: 2014

Publisher: Holiday House

ISBN: 978-0-8234-2921-9

Keywords: Civil Rights, Police Brutality, Demonstrations

A vivid account and graphic archival photographs celebrate the courage of Americans who fought, fifty years ago for their right to vote.