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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The Paper Cowboy
by Kristin Levine
Ages: 12+
Published: 2014
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile/Penguin
ISBN: 978-0-399-16328-9
Keywords: Bullying, McCarthyism
In 1953 twelve-year-old Tommy struggles with an unstable, abusive mother and suspicions that someone he knows is a communist. Can he do anything about either problem?