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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Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist For Justice
Tommie Smith and Derrick Barnes
Illustrator: Dawud Anyabwile
Ages: 12+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Norton Young Readers/W. W. Norton
ISBN: 978-1-324-00390-8
Keywords: family, track & field, African-American athletes, civil rights, olympics
A track-and-field champion's raised fist on the medal podium at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico became an iconic image of the struggle against racial injustice. Stirring black-and-white panels.