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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The Summer We Saved the Bees
by Robin Stevenson
Ages: 12+
Published: 2015
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 978-1-4598-0834-8
Keywords: Activism
Twelve-year-old Wolf's mother is on a crusade to reverse bee-colony collapse and save the world. But can Wolf save his family from the ensuing disruption of their lives?