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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Miles' Song
by Alice McGill
Ages: 9+
Published: 2000
Publisher: HMC
ISBN: 0-395-97938-2
Keywords:
A twelve-year-old slave learns to hide his ability to read, and his hunger for freedom behind “field-slave talk”.