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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These Shallow Graves
by Jennifer Donnelly
Ages: 14+
Published: 2015
Publisher: Delacorte Press/Random House
ISBN: 978-0-385-73765-4
Keywords: Fathers and Daughters, New York City history, Women's roles
In 1890 in New York City, a wealthy, privileged upper class girl learns the bitter truth about living in poverty, as she searches for answers to her father's sudden death.