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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Shark Teeth
Sherri Winston
Ages: 12+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books/Bloomsbury
ISBN: 978-1-5476-0850-8
Keywords: Family/School/Community-African American girls, alcoholism, foster care, fetal alcohol syndrome, sleep paralysis, hyperdontia, middle school, baton twirling
Seventh grader Sharkita, a Black girl, wants to keep her family together and to enjoy school. But can she do that when her mama keeps disappearing?