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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Sardines

Sashi Kaufman

Ages: 12+

Published: 2022

Publisher: Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins

ISBN: 978-0-06-99561-2

Keywords: teamwork, ingenuity, parent-child issues, compassion, ADD, clinical depression, foster children, fathers and sons

Lucas, 11, and four diverse classmates in an after-school program, bond through a game that inspires them to solve one another's problems.