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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The Quickest Kid in Clarksville
by Pat Zietlow Miller
Illustrator: Frank Morrison
Ages: 6+
Published: 2016
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 978-1-4521-2936-5
Keywords: Read Aloud, Diversity, Competition, Wilma Rudolph
In the 1960s, Alta and Charmaine each thinks she is the fastest runner in Wilma Rudolph's hometown. Can the two become friends before the Olympic medalist's victory parade begins? Appealing colorful watercolors.