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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Wrong Way Home, The
Kate O'Shaughnessy
Ages: 9+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf/Random House Children's Books/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-593-65073-8
Keywords: Family/School/Community-Mothers and daughters, Friendship, cults, social emotional
Fern and her mother have been members of the "Ranch" for six years. Their escape to California from this closed community leaves Fern questioning everyone and everything she has known and loved.