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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A Shadow Bright and Burning (Kingdom on Fire series)
by Jessica Cluess
Ages: 12+
Published: 2016
Publisher: Random House Children's Books/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-553-53590-7
Keywords: Fantasy, Magic, Women's Rights
Sixteen-year-old Henrietta, training as the first female sorcerer, confronts female stereotypes in Victorian England.