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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Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim
Patricia Park
Ages: 14+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Crown/Random House Children's Books/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-593-56337-3
Keywords: Grief, Friendship, Identity, Microagressions, Korean American, Latinx
After Papi's death, senior Alejandra Kim doesn't feel as if she belongs at her Manhattan prep school or her immigrant Queens neighborhood. Can she escape to her dream college?