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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How High the Moon
by Karyn Parsons
Ages: 12+
Published: 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company/Hachette
ISBN: 978-0-316-48400-8
Keywords: African Americans, Race relations, Diversity, Family life
In 1944, when Ella, 11, returns to South Carolina after a visit to Boston, she learns that her schoolmate has been charged with murdering two white girls.