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
Amira and Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds
Samira Ahmed
Illustrator: Kim Ekdahl
Ages: 9+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
ISBN: 978-0-316-54046-9
Keywords: Brothers and sisters, Muslims, supernatural, magic, good and evil
Siblings Amira, 12, and Hamza, 10, accidentally enter a parallel world, filled with characters from Islamic folklore, where they have been chosen to prevent evil forces from taking over Earth. (map, glossary)