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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Hunt for the Bamboo Rat
by Graham Salisbury
Ages: 14+
Published: 2014
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books/Random House
ISBN: 978-0-375-84266-5
Keywords: Japanese Americans, Spies
Zenji Watanabe, seventeen, is sent from Hawaii to the Philippines to spy on the Japanese, but gets captured by them when Manila is invaded in World War II.