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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Midnight Hour
Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder
Ages: 9+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Chicken House/Scholastic
ISBN: 978-1-338-56909-4
Keywords: magic, time travel, adventure, witchcraft, monsters, Victorian England
After receiving mysterious letters in the night, Emily's parents disappear. Following them takes her to another plane of existence and revelations about her own magical nature.