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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The Lovely and the Lost
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Ages: 14+
Published: 2019
Publisher: Freeform Books/Disney Book Group
ISBN: 978-1-4847-7620-9
Keywords: Social/Emotional Learning, Missing children, Search dogs, Survival, Wilderness areas, Rescue work
When Kira and her family join the search for a lost girl in a national park, the rescue attempt triggers Kira's memories of her own survival as a child.