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
Phoenix First Must Burn, A: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance and Hope
Patrice Caldwell (ed)
Ages: 14+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Viking/Penguin Young Readers
ISBN: 987-1-9848-3565-9
Keywords: horror, witches, science fiction, magical realism, fantasy, LGBTQIA
This diverse and wonderful collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories features protagonists who are women of color.