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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It All Comes Down to This
by Karen English
Ages: 12+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Clarion Books/HMH
ISBN: 978-0-544-83957-1
Keywords: Coming of age, Discrimination, Diversity, Integration
Navigating racial discrimination in a recently integrated middle class suburban Los Angeles neighborhood in 1965 is one of the several pressures in twelve-year-old Sophia's life.