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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Nothing Stopped Sophie
by Cheryl Bardoe
Illustrator: Barbara McClintock
Ages: 6+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
ISBN: 978-0-316-27820-1
Keywords: Discrimination, Mathematics, Women's Rights
Forbidden to attend college in Paris at the turn of the 18th century, a young woman studied independently and developed a mathematical formula to predict patterns of vibration. Colorful period illustrations. Back matter.