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 Boy and Girl Who Broke the World
by Amy Reed
Ages: 14+
Published: 2019
Publisher: Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-4814-8176-2
Keywords: Interpersonal Relationships, Celebrity, Multiracial identity, Magical Realism, Mental Illness, Poverty, Perspective, Family Crisis, Diversity
Glass-half-full Billy battles family demons. Pessimist Lydia struggles with a hopeless future. Are they causing their seaside town's fictionalized history of dragons, unicorns, and the apocalypse to come to life?