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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Wishtree

by Katherine Applegate

Illustrator: Charles Santoso

Ages: 9+

Published: 2017

Publisher: Feiwel and Friends/Macmillan

ISBN: 978-1-250-04322-1

Keywords: Friendship, Read-Aloud, Immigration, Discrimination

ARC - Narrated with gentle humor by a tree, the tree faces mortality and gets her neighborhood to welcome a Muslim girl. Black-and-white illustrations. [ check final for illustrations not seen in ARC]