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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My Cousin's Keeper
by Simon French
Ages: 9+
Published: 2014
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 978-0-7636-6729-0
Keywords: Friendship, Bullies, Middle School
Eleven-year-old Kieran wants to fit in at school, and so he goes along with the bullies who target his weird cousin. But when they go too far, he finally does the right thing.