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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.
To share feedback about the tool, please feel free to email bookcom@bankstreet.edu. To learn more about the CBC, visit https://www.bankstreet.edu/cbc/.
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All That It Ever Meant: A Novel
Blessing Musariri
Ages: 14+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Norton Young Readers/W. W. Norton
ISBN: 978-1-324-03095-9
Keywords: Familial relationships, Friendship, First Love, Death, Disability, Immigrant, Shona language, LGBTQ+, Bereavement, Mothers and daughters, Mental health
While grieving the death of her mother, 14-year-old Matiponesa shares her story with an invisible spirit guide as the family travels from England to Zimbabwe to mourn.