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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Twelve Steps to Normal
by Farrah Penn
Ages: 12+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown
ISBN: 978-0-316-47160-2
Keywords: Romance, Death, Alcoholism
When her father finishes rehab, Kira returns home determined to pick up her life as it was. However, relationships don't work like that.