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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Jacqueline Woodson
Ages: 12+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Random House
ISBN: 978-0-399-54546-7
Keywords: Memories, Brooklyn, African Americans, Arson, Friends, Basketball, Grief, Firefighters, Single parent families
As mysterious fires destroy her Bushwick community, African American Sage, 12, shares her love of basketball with her friend, Freddy, while also grappling with her father's death and her sexual identity.