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).
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A Hitch At the Fairmont
by Jim Averbeck
Illustrator: Nick Bertozzi
Ages: 9+
Published: 2014
Publisher: Atheneum BFYR/ Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-4424-9447-3
Keywords: Mystery
The great Alfred Hitchcock himself stars in this light-hearted mystery, helping a young orphan, Jack, solve a kidnapping. Enlivened by clever comic-strip illustrations.