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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Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now!
Claudette Colvin and Phillip Hoose
Illustrator: Bea Jackson
Ages: 6+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-374-38973-4
Keywords: Biography/Memoir-Civil rights, History, United States, African-Americans, activism
A brave teenage girl in Montgomery, Alabama. refused to give up her bus seat months before Rosa Parks's better-known protest. Strikingly realistic illustrations accompany a truly inspiring story.