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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Georgia Rules
by Nanci Turner Steveson
Ages: 9+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Harper/HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0-06-237457-8
Keywords: Family, Rural Life, Divorce, Disabilities, Grief, Alcoholism, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
When Maggie inherits her estranged father's farm, her mother moves them to Vermont where an unusual family shows them that certain rules are made to be broken.