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.
To share feedback about the tool, please feel free to email bookcom@bankstreet.edu. To learn more about the CBC, visit https://www.bankstreet.edu/cbc/.
How to Perform a Search and Save a List
Closer to Nowhere
Ellen Hopkins
Ages: 12+
Published: 2020
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN: 978-0-59310861-1
Keywords: motherless, troubled, acceptance, social/emotional
When troubled 12-year-old Cal comes to live with his aunt's family, he and his cousin, Hannah, share the impact. Verse with alternate voices.