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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Ruby in the Sky
by Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo
Ages: 9+
Published: 2019
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-374-30905-3
Keywords: Loneliness, Bullies, Self-esteem
When 12-year-old Ruby Moon arrives in Vermont, she and her mother hope to hide their questionable past but a reclusive animal-loving neighbor, a Syrian classmate, school bullies, and a sympathetic teacher stir things up.