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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Outrun the Moon

by Stacey Lee

Ages: 12+

Published: 2016

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Random House

ISBN: 978-0-399-17541-1

Keywords: Chinese Americans, Xenophobia, Diversity, Earthquakes, Sexism

Mercy Wong aspires to be an entrepreneur in 1906 San Francisco, but faced with sexism and xenophobia, deceit seems the only way forward.