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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This Indian Kid: A Native American Memoir
Eddie Chuculate
Illustrator: Map by Jim McMahon
Ages: 14+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Scholastic Focus/Scholastic
ISBN: 978-1-338-80208-5
Keywords: racially mixed communities, racism, sports, baseball, basketball, football, mentors, extended families, family estrangement, stepfathers, grandparents, fishing, hunting, sportswriting, poverty, classism, friendship
A Muskogee Creek writer details his rich (in everything but money), peripatetic upbringing in rural Oklahoma in the 1970s. Map, family photographs. Author's note.