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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Chirp
Kate Messner
Ages: 12+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
ISBN: 978-1-5476-0281-0
Keywords: Mystery, Sexual Abuse, #MeToo, Coming-of-age, Farms
After being sexually harassed by her gymnastics coach in Boston, Mia, 12, moves to Vermont where she gains confidence and solves a mystery at her grandmother's cricket farm.