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 Wicker King
by K. Ancrum
Ages: 14+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Imprint/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-1-250-10154-9
Keywords: Mental Illness, Psychological thriller, Unreliable narrator, LGBTQ, Codependency
When his best friend Jack's vivid hallucinations become increasingly frequent, August tries to save him by entering Jack's dark imaginary world pursuing a dangerous quest. Foreboding black and white multimedia elements accentuate the mood.