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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Pie in the Sky
by Remy Lai
Ages: 9+
Published: 2019
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-1-250-31410-9
Keywords: Siblings, Immigrants, Social/Emotional Learning, English as a second language learners
Living in Australia is lonely for Jingwen, 12, because he doesn't know English and misses his deceased father. Can baking his father's cakes help? Simple spot graphics.