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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Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!
Sarah Kapit
Ages: 9+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 978-0-5255-5418-9
Keywords: baseball, autism, bullying, failure
An unlikely friendship between a major-league Black knuckleball pitcher and autistic 11-year-old Vivy leads to e-mail exchanges as both struggle with life and the knuckleball.