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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by Martha Freeman

Ages: 12+

Published: 2018

Publisher: Simon & Schuster BFYR

ISBN: 978-1-5344-0557-8

Keywords: Mystery, Diversity, Inventions

When a conspiracy creates a total electric blackout in a New Jersey community the experts are stymied but three friends work together to find the perpetrator.