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).

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This Story Is a Lie

by Tom Pollock

Ages: 14+

Published: 2018

Publisher: Soho Teen/Soho Press

ISBN: 978-1-61695-911-1

Keywords: Disabilities, Unreliable narrator, Math

When his scientist mother is viciously attacked and his twin sister goes missing, Pete, 17, a math genius with severe anxiety, hunts for the truth.