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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Sheine Lende
Darcie Little Badger
Illustrator: Rovina Cai
Ages: 14+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Levine Querido
ISBN: 978-1-64614-379-5
Keywords: Fantasy-other worlds, quest, family tragedies, family bonds, mystery, faeries, dogs, extinct creatures, ghosts, flashbacks, time travel
In an alternate contemporary America, a resourceful 17-year-old Lipan Apache girl uses inherited supernatural abilities to search for missing children. Can she rescue them and her own mother? Gentle greyscale illustrations and spot art. Prequel to Elatsoe.