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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Another Kind of Hurricane
by Tamara Ellis Smith
Ages: 9+
Published: 2015
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books/Random House
ISBN: 978-0-553-51193-2
Keywords: Grief, Friendship, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
In New Orleans, Zavion, ten, loses everything in Hurricane Katrina; in Vermont, Henry, ten, loses his best friend. Their lives are connected to each other by a lucky marble.