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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Different Kinds of Fruit
Kyle Lukoff
Ages: 12+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Dial BFYR/Penguin Random Huse
ISBN: 978-0-593-11118-5
Keywords: Sexual identity, fathers and daughters, transgender, school stories, friendship
Rising seventh grader Annabelle deals with gender and sexual identities in her family and community -- including learning that her much-loved father is trans.