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 Stars Beneath Our Feet
by David Barclay Moore
Ages: 12+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf BFYR/Random House/PRH
ISBN: 978-1-5247-0124-6
Keywords: Gangs, LGBTQ, Grief, Architecture, Harlem, Autism
Mourning his older brother's gang-related shooting, Wallace “Lolly”Rachpaul, 12, finds solace, escape, and companionship when he begins building an enormous Lego fantasy world.