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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Borderless
Jennifer De Leon
Ages: 14+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/Atheneum BFYR/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-6659-0416-2
Keywords: Parent and child, Fashion design, First love, Gang violence, Immigration, Central America, Guatemala
Sixteen-year-old Maya, a scholarship student at Salomé Fashion Institute in Guatemala City, ignored her mother's warning about gang members invading their neighborhood. Now she must suffer the consequences of that decision.