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

Clues to the Universe

Christina Li

Ages: 12+

Published: 2021

Publisher: Quill Tree Books/Harper Collins

ISBN: 978-0-06-300888-5

Keywords: Friendship. Mourning. Mixed-race

Two 7th grade students - Benji, a talented artist, and Ro, a gifted lover of science and invention - face social exclusion but dazzle everyone with an amazing science fair entry.