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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Mindwalker
by A. J. Steiger
Ages: 14+
Published: 2015
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf/Random House
ISBN: 978-0-553-49713-7
Keywords: Dystopia, Love, Memory
Lain, seventeen, is being trained by a government agency to erase her clients' most painful memories. When a troubled classmate seeks her expertise, complicated questions arise and loyalties are tested.