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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Adventure is Now, The
Jess Redman
Ages: 9+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux/Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
ISBN: 978-0-374-31471-2
Keywords: video games, bullying, loneliness, friendship, divorce, ecology, wildlife conservation
Shipped to remote Lone Island to spend the summer with his uncle, Milton P. Greene needs to find fanciful flora and fauna to save the island.