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 Jigsaw Jungle
by Kristin Levine
Ages: 12+
Published: 2018
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-399-17452-0
Keywords: Coming out, Puzzles, ARC, Epistolary books
When Claudia's father vanishes, jigsaw puzzles and old family movies lead her to his hidden time capsule and help solve the mystery of his disappearance.