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
Why We Fly
Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
Illustrator: Kimbeely Jones, Gilly Segal
Ages: 14+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
ISBN: 978-1-49267-892-2
Keywords: Friendship, Family, Coming of age, Race relations, Allyship, Athletics
Senior year is full of challenges for Eleanor, White, and Chanel, Black, college-bound stars of their cheerleading squad. The political act of kneeling during the national anthem at a game brings serious consequences and threatens their futures.