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).

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When Friendship Followed Me Home

by Paul Griffin

Ages: 12+

Published: 2016

Publisher: Dial BFYR/Penguin YR/PRH

ISBN: 978-0-8037-3816-4

Keywords: Friendship, Pets, Cancer

Former foster kid Ben Coffin, 12, a science fiction and math geek, rescues and adopts a stray dog, setting off a chain of unforeseen events.