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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A Quiet Kind of Thunder
by Sara Barnard
Ages: 14+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-5344-0241-6
Keywords: Agency, Love, Anxiety, Diversity
With a history of selective mutism, Steffi uses signing as a way of communicating. In high school, she is partnered with a deaf boy and her life improves.