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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Sylvia & Miz Lula Maye
by Pansie Hart Flood
Illustrator: Felicia Marshall
Ages: 9+
Published: 2002
Publisher: Carolrhoda
ISBN: 0-87614-204-8
Keywords:
When ten-year-old Sylvia moves to South Carolina, friendship with a hundred-year-old neighbor keeps her from being lonely.