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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This Is Just a Test
by Madelyn Rosenberg
Ages: 12+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 978-1-338-03772-2
Keywords: Coming of age, Cold War
As a bar mitzvah approaches, grandmothers struggle for dominance and friendships are tested. A love interest appears, and David Da-Wei Horowitz is digging a fall-out shelter in case of nuclear war.