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.

To share feedback about the tool, please feel free to email bookcom@bankstreet.edu. To learn more about the CBC, visit https://www.bankstreet.edu/cbc/.

How to Perform a Search and Save a List

Holding Up the Universe

by Jennifer Niven

Ages: 14+

Published: 2016

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf/Random House/PRH

ISBN: 978-0-385-75592-4

Keywords: Bullying, Prosopagnosia, Obesity

Libby was once named “America's fattest teen.” Jack is secretly face-blind. Can each be the answer to the other's loneliness?