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.
To share feedback about the tool, please feel free to email bookcom@bankstreet.edu. To learn more about the CBC, visit https://www.bankstreet.edu/cbc/.
How to Perform a Search and Save a List
Troublemaker
John Cho (w/Sara Suk)
Ages: 12+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown BFYR/Hachette
ISBN: 978-0-7595-5447-4
Keywords: gun violence, 1992 LA riots, racism, immigration, middle school, fathers and sons, siblings
Twelve-year-old Korean American Jordan is caught up in struggling between friends and family honor during the 1992 LA riots following the Rodney King verdict.