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).

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Break to You

Neal Shusterman, Debra Young, and Michelle Knowlden

Ages: 14+

Published: 2024

Publisher: Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins

ISBN: 978-0-06-287576-1

Keywords: Family/School/Community-Juvenile justice system, Crime, Gangs, Violence, Stepfamilies, Drugs, Romance

When Jon, a Black teen, finds Adriana's hidden journal, the two inmates in a gender-segregated juvenile detention center start a dangerous, forbidden correspondence.