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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Carry Me Home
Janet Fox
Ages: 9+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-5344-8508-2
Keywords: social services, fathers and daughters, death, poverty, homelessness
When Lulu's father disappears from the RV park where the family have been living since their mother's death, she vows to take care of herself and her younger sister.