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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Trouble the Water
by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Ages: 12+
Published: 2016
Publisher: A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book/Atheneum BFYR/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-4814-2463-9
Keywords: Civil rights, Diversity, Segregation
In 1953 segregated Kentucky, two 11-year-olds, an African American girl and a white boy, search for a lost dog's owner together and encounter a ghost from the days of the underground railroad.