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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Order of Things, The
Kaija Langley
Ages: 12+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Random House
ISBN: 978-0-593-53090-0
Keywords: music, social emotional, drums, death, single-parent families, foster care, child abuse, LGBTQIA+, sudden cardiac arrest (SCA)
When Zee, a very talented violinist, enters a new STEAM school, April, his best friend, is left alone in sixth grade. Too soon tragedy strikes. Free verse.