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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Something Like Home
Andrea Beatriz Arango
Ages: 12+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Random House Children's Books/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-593-56618-3
Keywords: Puerto Rican Heritage, Addiction, Kinship Foster Care, Novel in Verse, Dogs, Pit Bulls, Sickle Cell Anemia
When her parents are sent to rehab, Laura, 11, is sent to live with an aunt she doesn't know and finds companionship with a stray dog. Free verse.