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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Retribution Rails
by Erin Bowman
Ages: 14+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 978-0-544-91888-7
Keywords: Outlaws, Frontier Life, train robbers, 1880s
In alternating voices, the stories of the youngest member of a train-robbing gang and an aspiring girl reporter unfold against the backdrop of the wild, lawless Arizona territory in the late 1800's.