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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We are All Made of Molecules

by Susin Nielsen

Ages: 12+

Published: 2015

Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books/Random House

ISBN: 978-0-553-49686-4

Keywords: Step-families, Bullies

When their parents move in together, brilliant, nerdy Stewart and beautiful mean-girl Ashley alternate their ghostly tales of this not-the-Brady-Bunch new family.