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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Home Is Not a Country
Safia Elhillo
Ages: 14+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Penguin Random House/Random House Children's Books/Make Me a World
ISBN: 978-0-593-17705-1
Keywords: immigration, social-emotional
A bullied Muslim teen immigrant living with her widowed mother in an unnamed, post-9/11 American town, dreams of a homeland she's never seen. Free verse.