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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Great or Nothing
Joy McCullough, Caroline Tung Richmond, Tess Sharpe, Jessica Spotswood
Illustrator: Louise Cannell
Ages: 14+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Delacorte Press/Random House Children's Books/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-593-37259-3
Keywords: World War II, Racism, Grief, WASPs (Women's Airforce Service Pilots), Social class, LGBTQIA+, Poetry
In a reimagined Little Women set in 1942, Jo works in an aircraft factory, Amy joins the Red Cross, and the Marches struggle with their grief over Beth's death. Black-and-white spot art.