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 Stitch in Time

by Daphne Kalmar

Ages: 9+

Published: 2018

Publisher: Feiwel and Friends/Macmillan

ISBN: 978-1-250-15498-9

Keywords: Grief, Bears, Runaways, Taxidermy

When her beloved pops dies, Donut's aunt comes to take her from her familiar rural Vermont home to live in Boston. What can eleven-year-old Donut do but run away?