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 World Beneath
by Janice Warman
Ages: 12+
Published: 2016
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 978-0-7636-7856-2
Keywords: Apartheid, South Africa
In the 1970s, a black boy living with his servant mother in a white-owned mansion, becomes embroiled in the South African anti-apartheid struggle, forcing him to make heart-wrenching decisions.