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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Marika

by Andrea Cheng

Ages: 9+

Published: 2002

Publisher: Front Street

ISBN: 1-886910-78-2

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The need to survive the realities of war shatters the ordinary worries of a twelve-year-old girl in Budapest, 1939-1945.