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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Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry, The (Sunderworld series)
Ransom Riggs
Ages: 14+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Dutton Books/Penguin Random House
ISBN: 978-0-593-53093-1
Keywords: Fantasy-friendship, found family, fathers and sons, academic achievement, parental pressure, coming of age, Mental health
Leopold is drawn into a parallel world by strange visions of a fantasy TV show his mother recorded on a VCR before her death five years ago.