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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Tigers, Not Daughters
Samantha Mabry
Ages: 14+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Algonquin YR/Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN: 978-1-61620-896-7
Keywords: Physical Abuse, Dysfunctional family, Sibling relationships, Ghosts, Spirituality, Mexican Americans, Grief
When the oldest teenage sister in a contemporary Mexican American family dies, the other three grieve, suffer, and receive different messages from her restless spirit.