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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Chester Keene Cracks the Code
Kekla Magoon
Ages: 12+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books, Random House Children's Books/PRH
ISBN: 978-1-5247-1599-1
Keywords: mystery, scavenger hunt, friendship, single-parent family, social/emotional learning
Biracial Chester's defensive rigidity is challenged by a riddle his distant father has posed. A girl offers to help. A light-hearted adventure with a serious undercurrent.