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).
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Each Night Was Illuminated
Jodi Lynn Anderson
Ages: 14+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0-06-239357-9
Keywords: faith, Catholicism, environmentalism, climate change, hurricanes, development, New Jersey, prejudice, parental abandonment
After witnessing a fatal train accident, 17-year-old Cassie, a questioning Catholic, finds herself on a ghost-hunting quest with Elias, a Bangladeshi-Australian visitor, and discovers something to believe in.