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).
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Losers at the Center of the Galaxy, The
Mary Winn Heider
Ages: 12+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 978-0-7595-5542-6
Keywords: Grief, siblings, traumatic brain injury (CTE)
Middle school siblings find separate paths to wholeness following the disappearance of their father, an ex-football player with CTE. Poignant yet sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.