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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Chasing Freedom

by Nikki Grimes

Illustrator: Michele Wood

Ages: 9+

Published: 2015

Publisher: Orchard Books/Scholastic

ISBN: 978-0-439-79338-4

Keywords: Picture Books for Older Readers, Suffragettes, Women's Rights, Abolitionists, Underground Railroad

In an imaginary 1904 meeting, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony talk about their life's work and their achievements. Folk art-style illustrations.