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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A Bus of Our Own
by Freddi Williams Evans
Illustrator: Shawn Costello
Ages: 6+
Published: 2001
Publisher: Albert Whitman
ISBN: 0-8075-0970-1
Keywords: Discrimination
In the 1950's. African-American children who have to walk five miles to school each way, struggle to find transportation.