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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Sparks Fly Upward
by Carol Matas
Ages: 9+
Published: 2002
Publisher: Clarion
ISBN: 0-618-15964-9
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After the farm home of her large family is destroyed by fire in 1910, Rebecca moves to the city and faces virulent anti-semitism and life as a foster child.