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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Thunder City (Mortal Engines series)
Philip Reeve
Ages: 12+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Scholastic Press/Scholastic
ISBN: 978-1-5461-3823-5
Keywords: Science Fiction-Genocide, usurpers, gladiators, cyborgs, friendship, teachers, dystopia,
A small band of unlikely allies race to overthrow a dictator in a world where combative mobile cities can mow down and absorb smaller ones.