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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Chandler Baker & Wesley King
Ages: 14+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Dial/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-593-32612-1
Keywords: Pandemic 2020, romance, families, single parent families, stepfamilies
Maxine and Jonah meet just as the pandemic lockdown begins. Can their relationship overcome quarantine, communicating remotely, family problems and grief?