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).

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Walking with Miss Millie

by Tamara Bundy

Ages: 9+

Published: 2017

Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin YR/PRH

ISBN: 978-0-399-54456-9

Keywords: Aging, Diversity, Absent fathers, Hearing Impairment, Deaf, Racism

Alice, a white girl, learns about accepting loss and misjudging people during her daily walks with her elderly African American neighbor in 1960's Georgia.