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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Deborah Ellis
Ages: 9+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
ISBN: 978-1-77306-594-6
Keywords: Birthdays, Maturity, Refugees, Immigration, Nationalism, Independence (Personal), Growing up
Ten stories feature young people in many different settings, from refugee detention centers to comfortable middle class homes, who need to make personal choices.