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).
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The Distance between Me and the Cherry Tree
by Paola Peretti
Illustrator: Carolina Rabei
Ages: 9+
Published: 2019
Publisher: Atheneum BFYR/ Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-5344-3962-7
Keywords: Social/Emotion Learning, Friendship, Italy, Disability, Diversity, Blindness, Breast cancer
In Italy, ten-year-old Mafalda struggles to live a normal life after she learns she is losing her eyesight from a genetic illness.