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.
To share feedback about the tool, please feel free to email bookcom@bankstreet.edu. To learn more about the CBC, visit https://www.bankstreet.edu/cbc/.
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Tree. Table. Book.
Lois Lowry
Ages: 9+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Clarion/HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0-06329-950-4
Keywords: Family/School/Community- war, hunger, cruelty, love, Jewish, adoption, survival, neighborhood, secrets, dementia
In an effort to help her 87-year-old friend remain in her own home, Sophie, 11, uses cognitive tools to improve her friend's memory, eliciting unexpected and deeply affecting responses.