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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Nowhere Better Than Here
Sarah Guillory
Ages: 12+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press/Holtzbrinck
ISBN: 978-1-250-82426-4
Keywords: dislocation, nostalgia, ecology, climate change, advocacy
Forced to leave their tiny, flood-devasted town in Louisiana, Jillian, 13, and her friends are determined to preserve its history and the memories of their Cajun community, leading them to environmental activism.