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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Noggin

by John Corey Whaley

Ages: 12+

Published: 2014

Publisher: Atheneum BFYR/ Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-4424-5872-7

Keywords: Identity, High Interest

When sixteen-year-old Travis Coates wakes up after five years, his head has been attached to a new, disease-free body. His problems are just beginning.