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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Dear Ellen Bee
by Mary E. Lyons
Ages: 9+
Published: 2000
Publisher: Atheneum
ISBN: 0-689-82379-7
Keywords:
In Civil War Richmond, a former slave and her former owner join forces to spy on the Confederacy. Based on a true incident.