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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Murray Out of Water
Taylor Tracy
Ages: 12+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0-06- 332681-1
Keywords: Coming-of-Age-Friendship, parent and child, gender identity, hurricanes, roller skating, roller derby, drag performers, ocean, marine animals
Numerous challenges confront 12-year-old Murray: a destroyed beachfront home; the loss of her magical connection with the ocean; an emerging LGBTQ+ identity; and a censorious, homophobic mother. Free verse.