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.
To share feedback about the tool, please feel free to email bookcom@bankstreet.edu. To learn more about the CBC, visit https://www.bankstreet.edu/cbc/.
How to Perform a Search and Save a List
American Panda
by Gloria Chao
Ages: 14+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-4814-9910-1
Keywords: Humor, Culture clash, Chinese Americans, Parent and Child
A freshman at MIT, Mei, 17, tries to meet her traditional Taiwanese parents' expectations but their dreams for her are not what she wants - or needs.