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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Home After Dark
written and illustrated by David Small
Ages: 14+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Liveright Publishing/W. W. Norton
ISBN: 978-0-87140-315-5
Keywords: Social/Emotional Learning, Diversity, Chinese Americans, LGBTQ, Abandonment, Bullying, Graphic format
Abandoned first by his mother and then his father, Russell survives a lonely adolescence with the help of a loving Chinese-American couple who take him in. Expressive pen and ink sketches.