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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Not Here to Be Liked
Michelle Quach
Ages: 14+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0-06-303836-3
Keywords: feminism, Chinese American culture, parental expectations
Chinese American Eliza finds herself at the center of a schoolwide controversy over gender equality when her private outrage at being passed over for editor-in-chief of the Bugle becomes public.