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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The Boy Who Could Fly Without a Motor
by Theodore Taylor
Ages: 9+
Published: 2002
Publisher: Harcourt
ISBN: 0-15-216529-0
Keywords:
Living in a lighthouse off California's coast, a lonely nine-year-old gains unexpected powers from the ghost of a Chinese magician--and attention from President Roosevelt and J. Edgar Hoover.