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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Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass: The Graphic Novel
based on the novel by Meg Medina
Illustrator: adapted and illustrated by Mel Valentine Vargas
Ages: 14+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 978-1-5362-2477-1
Keywords: Latina, Friendship, Social media, single parent families, Beauty salons, Domestic violence
Piddy is having a difficult time adjusting to teenagerhood and a new high school. Bullying and violence from a girl gang threaten to derail her goals. Blue, grey, black, and white pastel panels.