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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Wild Wave (The Wild series)
Rodman Philbrick
Ages: 9+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Scholastic Press/Scholastic
ISBN: 978-1-338-88231-5
Keywords: Family/School/Community-Tsunami, Survival, Friendship, Social-emotional learning
After a powerful tsunami destroys their coastal town, classmates Nick and Jess escape through a devastated forest but must struggle to get aid for missing helpers who they met as they fled.