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.
To share feedback about the tool, please feel free to email bookcom@bankstreet.edu. To learn more about the CBC, visit https://www.bankstreet.edu/cbc/.
How to Perform a Search and Save a List
American Road Trip
by Patrick Flores-Scott
Ages: 14+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-1-62779-741-2
Keywords: academic struggles, Mexican Americans, PTSD, Depression, Attempted suicide
Teodoro's summer plans before senior year are disrupted when his brother returns from Iraq with PTSD and the family must deal with new realities.