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.
To share feedback about the tool, please feel free to email bookcom@bankstreet.edu. To learn more about the CBC, visit https://www.bankstreet.edu/cbc/.
How to Perform a Search and Save a List
The Boy at the Back of the Class
by Onjali Q. Raúf
Illustrator: Pippa Curnick
Ages: 9+
Published: 2019
Publisher: Delacorte Press/Random House Children's Books/PRH
ISBN: 978-1-9848-5078-2
Keywords: Friendship, Asylum, Diversity, England, Syria
Four British 9-year-olds plot to reunite their new classmate, a Syrian refugee, with his parents. Pencil sketches. Copious back matter on refugees and relief organizations.