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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Team Chu and the Battle of the Blackwood Arena (Team Chu series)
Julie C. Dao
Illustrator: Chi Ngo
Ages: 9+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-374-38875-1
Keywords: racism, gender-based expectations
Vietnamese American siblings Sadie and Clip are fiercely competitive in laser tag. When a virtual-reality-enhanced game becomes dangerous, can they bury their rivalry to escape? Animated black-and-white illustrations.