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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The Girl with 500 Middle Names

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Illustrator: Janet Hamlin

Ages: 6+

Published: 2001

Publisher: S&S

ISBN: 0-689-84135-3

Keywords:

Family money problems and a move to a new school challenge a spunky nine-year-old to develop creative survival techniques.