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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Be Not Far From Me
Mindy McGinnis
Ages: 14+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0-06-256162-6
Keywords: survival, adventure, self-esteem, ecology, perseverance, loneliness, social/emotional learning, survival
Resourceful, courageous, and stubborn seventeen-year-old Ashley flees her boyfriend's infidelity; she survives weeks in the wilderness learning respect for herself, nature, and human connections.