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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Finding Fortune
by Delia Ray
Ages: 12+
Published: 2015
Publisher: Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-374-30065-4
Keywords: Mystery, Museums, Family Life
The town of Fortune, Iowa, famous for shell buttons, is down on its luck. So is Ren, whose father is in Afghanistan. Everybody's fortune turns around.