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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Red, White, and Whole
Rajani LaRocca
Ages: 12+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0-06-304742-6
Keywords: Novels in Verse, Identity, Illness, Death
Reha, 13, feels torn between two worlds: American at school and Indian at home. Then her mother is diagnosed with leukemia and everything changes. Free verse.