
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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Night on Fire
by Ronald Kidd
Ages: 9+
Published: 2015
Publisher: Albert Whitman
ISBN: 978-0-8075-7024-1
Keywords: Prejudice, Race Relations, Diversity, Civil War
In 1961, after witnessing violent attacks on the peaceful Freedom Riders in her home town of Anniston, Alabama, Billie, 13, bonds with Janine, a black girl. Together they travel to Montgomery to join the fight against segregation.