The Best Children's Books of the YearTwelve to Fourteen2012

Given by Children's Book Committee, Bank Street College Center for Children's Literature

Outros Nomes: CBCA Selected Book of the Year for Children (Inglês), Bank Street Best Children's Books of the Year (Inglês), Bank Street Book of the Year (Inglês), Bank Street CBC Best Children's Book of the Year (Inglês), Bank Street CBC Best Children's Book of the Year, Outstanding Merit (Inglês), Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year (Inglês), Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year (Inglês), CBCA Book of the Year for Children (Inglês), Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year (Inglês), CSCBC Children's Book of the Year (Inglês)
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The Children's Book Committee was founded more than 100 years ago to help parents, teachers, and librarians choose the books that children will find captivating and transforming.
One of the most mostrar mais comprehensive annotated book lists for children, aged infant through 16. The Committee reviews over 6,000 titles annually for accuracy and literary quality and considers their emotional impact on children. The best 600 books published each year, both fiction and nonfiction, are listed with annotations, according to age and category.

Included are the past editions that are currently available online. Reference copies of editions published in print before 2010 may be found in the Bank Street College Library.
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Stages:
Todos, Outstanding Merit (126), No Stage (9,613)
Categorias:
Todos, **Five to Nine, Information Books, STEM, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (1), *Five to Nine, Fiction, Adventure and Mystery (2), *Five to Nine, Fiction, Animals (1), *Five to Nine, Fiction, Beginning Readers (1), *Five to Nine, Fiction, Coming of Age (3), *Five to Nine, Fiction, Concept Books (1), *Five to Nine, Fiction, Fantasy (1), *Five to Nine, Fiction, Folk and Fairy Tales (3), *Five to Nine, Fiction, Historical Fiction (3), *Five to Nine, Fiction, Humor (3), *Five to Nine, Fiction, Today (12), *Five to Nine, Information Books, Arts (2), *Five to Nine, Information Books, Biography and Memoir (2), *Five to Nine, Information Books, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) (3), *Five to Nine, Information Books, World (3), *Five to Nine, Poetry (2), *Fourteen and Older, Fiction, Coming of Age (1), *Fourteen and Older, Fiction, Fantasy (1), *Fourteen and Older, Fiction, Historical Fiction (2), *Fourteen and Older, Fiction, Magical Realism (1), 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No Stage 115

ObraAno
Anya's War por Andrea Alban2012
Through Her Eyes por Jennifer Archer2012
Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court por Marc Aronson2012
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam por Reza Aslan2012
Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue por Kathryn J. Atwood2012
All Good Children por Catherine Austen2012
Death Watch por Ari Berk2012
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition por Karen Blumenthal2012
Jefferson's Sons por Kimberly Brubaker Bradley2012
Black and White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor por Larry Dane Brimner2012
At the Sea Floor Cafe: Odd Ocean Critter Poems por Leslie Bulion2012
Kat, Incorrigible por Stephanie Burgis2012
Stay por Deb Caletti2012
The Girl of Fire and Thorns por Rae Carson2012
The Beginning of After por Jennifer Castle2012
Deadly por Julie Chibbaro2012
Texas Gothic por Rosemary Clement-Moore2012
Where I Belong por Gillian Cross2012
Flirt Club por Cathleen Daly2012
What Happened to Goodbye por Sarah Dessen2012
Auslander por Paul Dowswell2012
The Running Dream por Wendelin Van Draanen2012
Phantoms In The Snow por Kathleen Benner Duble2012
The Other Countess por Eve Edwards2012
My Name Is Not Easy por Debby Dahl Edwardson2012
The Traitor's Smile por Patricia Elliott2012
Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck por Margarita Engle2012
The Absolute Value of Mike por Kathryn Erskine2012
Belladonna por Mary Finn2012
The Blackhope Enigma por Teresa Flavin2012
The Summer of May por Cecilia Galante2012
Five Thousand Years of Slavery por Marjorie Gann2012
Dead End in Norvelt por Jack Gantos2012
Butterflies por Susanne Gervay2012
How I Stole Johnny Depp's Alien Girlfriend por Gary Ghislain2012
Ruby Red por Kerstin Gier2012
Warped por Maurissa Guibord2012
Alice Bliss: A Novel por Laura Harrington2012
The Midnight Zoo por Sonya Hartnett2012
Why Do I Have to Eat Off the Floor? por Chris Hornsey2012
Like Mandarin por Kirsten Hubbard2012
Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto por Paul B. Janeczko2012
Lincoln's Flying Spies: Thaddeus Lowe and the Civil War Balloon Corps por Gail Jarrow2012
This Girl Is Different por J. J. Johnson2012
Darkness Becomes Her por Kelly Keaton2012
The Girl Behind the Glass por Jane Kelley2012
Moonglass por Jessi Kirby2012
Mysterious Bones: The Story of Kennewick Man por Katherine Kirkpatrick2012
The Bill of Rights (Documents of Democracy) por Dr Stephen Krensky2012
The Constitution (Documents of Democracy) por Stephen Krensky2012
The Declaration of Independence (Documents of Democracy) por Stephen Krensky2012
The Emancipaton Proclamation por Stephen Krensky2012
May por Kathryn Lasky2012
Biomimicry: Inventions Inspired by Nature por Dora Lee2012
Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories por Kelly Link2012
The Undrowned Child por Michelle Lovric2012
Promise the Night por Michaela MacColl2012
The Black por D. J. MacHale2012
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) por Sue Macy2012
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy por Albert Marrin2012
Under the Mesquite por Guadalupe Garcia McCall2012
You Don't Know About Me por Brian Meehl2012
The Lost Crown por Sarah Miller2012
Out of the Box por Michelle Mulder2012
A Monster Calls por Patrick Ness2012
Hera: The Goddess and her Glory por George O'Connor2012
Sparrow Road por Sheila O'Connor2012
Siren's Storm por Lisa Papademetriou2012
Long Story Short por Siobhan Parkinson2012
Dogtag Summer por Elizabeth Partridge2012
The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills por Joanna Pearson2012
The Fox Inheritance por Mary E. Pearson2012
Guantanamo Boy por Anna Perera2012
Bird in a Box por Andrea Davis Pinkney2012
The Pull of Gravity por Gae Polisner2012
Billions of Years, Amazing Changes: The Story of Evolution por Laurence Pringle2012
Words in the Dust por Trent Reedy2012
The Summer I Learned to Fly por Dana Reinhardt2012
The Queen of Water por Laura Resau2012
Divergent por Veronica Roth2012
Digging for Troy: From Homer to Hisarlik por Jill Rubalcaba2012
Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein (Junior Library Guild Selection (Charlesbridge Hardcover)) por Susan Goldman Rubin2012
Eddie's War por Carol Fisher Saller2012
Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem por Rosalyn Schanzer2012
Okay for Now por Gary D. Schmidt2012
Between Shades of Gray por Ruta Sepetys2012
The Berlin Boxing Club por Robert Sharenow2012
Cleopatra's Moon por Vicky Alvear Shecter2012
A Long, Long Sleep por Anna Sheehan2012
All the Things You Are por Courtney Sheinmel2012
Everfound por Neal Shusterman2012
Jasper Jones por Craig Silvey2012
I'll Be There por Holly Goldberg Sloan2012
Memento Nora por Angie Smibert2012
The Scorpio Races por Maggie Stiefvater2012
Famous por Todd Strasser2012
Lost and Found: Three by Shaun Tan (Lost and Found Omnibus) por Shaun Tan2012
The Girl Who Became a Beatle por Greg Taylor2012
Orchards por Holly Thompson2012
The Door in the Forest por Roderick Townley2012
Ashes, Ashes por Jo Treggiari2012
Viola in the Spotlight por Adriana Trigiani2012
Father of Lies por Ann Turner2012
Breadcrumbs por Anne Ursu2012
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making por Catherynne M. Valente2012
Raggin' Jazzin' Rockin': A History of American Musical Instrument Makers por Susan VanHecke2012
Island's End por Padma Venkatraman2012
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London por Andrea Warren2012
Rival por Sara Bennett Wealer2012
See What I See por Gloria Whelan2012
Small Acts of Amazing Courage por Gloria Whelan2012
Now Is the Time for Running por Michael Williams2012
The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic por Allan Wolf2012
Daughter of Xanadu por Dori Jones Yang2012
Four Seasons por Jane Breskin Zalben2012

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The Children's Book Committee was founded more than 100 years ago to help parents, teachers, and librarians choose the books that children will find captivating and transforming.
One of the most comprehensive annotated book lists for children, aged infant through 16. The Committee reviews over 6,000 titles annually for accuracy and literary quality and considers their emotional impact on children. The best 600 books published each year, both fiction and nonfiction, are listed with annotations, according to age and category.

Included are the past editions that are currently available online. Reference copies of editions published in print before 2010 may be found in the Bank Street College Library. (English, Member-written)
By Child Study Children's Book Committee of Child Study Association of America (1967-1977) and at Bank Street College (subsequently)

[Succeeds CBCA Book of the Year for Children.
Succeeded by Bank Street CBC Best Children's Book of the Year.]

from Bank Street: About the Children's Book Committee

We began in 1909 as part of the family life education program of the Child Study Association of America, an organization devoted to guiding parents in their understanding of child development.

At the time, a nascent "parent education" movement fostered a growing awareness of the emotional needs of children, and of how books might affect children's feelings of themselves and the world around them. As "expert" opinions of psychiatrists, psychologists, and educators filtered down to parents, the Child Study Association decided to evaluate current literature for children, and to prepare and publish booklists to guide parents, librarians, and teachers in the selection of developmentally appropriate reading materials. Interestingly enough, the Committee decided right from the start to publish only positive reviews and recommendations.

Its first product was a modest pamphlet, but more ambitious lists soon followed. Eventually, with a rapidly expanding number of new children's books being published, the Committee adopted a more organized reviewing process, which continues to this day.

For many years the Committee's reviews appeared in the monthly (and later quarterly) magazine published by the Association. When the magazine was discontinued, the Committee compiled its own annual booklet, the "Children's Books of the Year," which has been published and distributed yearly since 1936.

The Committee eventually expanded its mandate in a number of significant ways. It collected and edited anthologies of children's stories and published specific lists in response to requests from parents, organizations, or specific needs that arose in the community. It also arranged lectures to promote public interest in children's literature and invited children to discuss their preferences in books, which eventually led to the inclusion of Young Reviewers on the Committee.

In addition, the Committee established an annual award in 1942 to encourage the writing and publishing of books "for children and young people dealing realistically with some of the problems in the world." The Committee now also bestows an annual award for the best poetry book for young readers as well as an award for a nonfiction book that "serves as an inspiration for young readers."

By 1977, the Child Study Association was forced to discontinue its programs because of financial difficulties, but the Children's Book Committee was invited to continue its groundbreaking work at the Bank Street College of Education, where it remains to this day. Here its outreach broadened, not only in increasing the circulation of its list, but in the wider range of its membership.

Today's Committee comprises some 40 members—all volunteers—from various professions and backgrounds concerned with children and books: writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, teachers, and parents. Members use their skills and expertise to foster the unique point of view bequeathed to us by our founding organization—namely, how books can affect young readers, and what books can do for them. (English, Member-written)
[Succeeds CBCA Selected Book of the Year for Children
Succeeded by CSCBC Children's Book of the Year.]

from Bank Street:
About the Children's Book Committee
We began in 1909 as part of the family life education program of the Child Study Association of America, an organization devoted to guiding parents in their understanding of child development.

At the time, a nascent "parent education" movement fostered a growing awareness of the emotional needs of children, and of how books might affect children's feelings of themselves and the world around them. As "expert" opinions of psychiatrists, psychologists, and educators filtered down to parents, the Child Study Association decided to evaluate current literature for children, and to prepare and publish booklists to guide parents, librarians, and teachers in the selection of developmentally appropriate reading materials. Interestingly enough, the Committee decided right from the start to publish only positive reviews and recommendations.

Its first product was a modest pamphlet, but more ambitious lists soon followed. Eventually, with a rapidly expanding number of new children's books being published, the Committee adopted a more organized reviewing process, which continues to this day.

For many years the Committee's reviews appeared in the monthly (and later quarterly) magazine published by the Association. When the magazine was discontinued, the Committee compiled its own annual booklet, the "Children's Books of the Year," which has been published and distributed yearly since 1936.

The Committee eventually expanded its mandate in a number of significant ways. It collected and edited anthologies of children's stories and published specific lists in response to requests from parents, organizations, or specific needs that arose in the community. It also arranged lectures to promote public interest in children's literature and invited children to discuss their preferences in books, which eventually led to the inclusion of Young Reviewers on the Committee.

In addition, the Committee established an annual award in 1942 to encourage the writing and publishing of books "for children and young people dealing realistically with some of the problems in the world." The Committee now also bestows an annual award for the best poetry book for young readers as well as an award for a nonfiction book that "serves as an inspiration for young readers."

By 1977, the Child Study Association was forced to discontinue its programs because of financial difficulties, but the Children's Book Committee was invited to continue its groundbreaking work at the Bank Street College of Education, where it remains to this day. Here its outreach broadened, not only in increasing the circulation of its list, but in the wider range of its membership.

Today's Committee comprises some 40 members—all volunteers—from various professions and backgrounds concerned with children and books: writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, teachers, and parents. Members use their skills and expertise to foster the unique point of view bequeathed to us by our founding organization—namely, how books can affect young readers, and what books can do for them. (English, Member-written)
[Succeeded by CBCA Book of the Year for Children]

from Bank Street:
About the Children's Book Committee
We began in 1909 as part of the family life education program of the Child Study Association of America, an organization devoted to guiding parents in their understanding of child development.

At the time, a nascent "parent education" movement fostered a growing awareness of the emotional needs of children, and of how books might affect children's feelings of themselves and the world around them. As "expert" opinions of psychiatrists, psychologists, and educators filtered down to parents, the Child Study Association decided to evaluate current literature for children, and to prepare and publish booklists to guide parents, librarians, and teachers in the selection of developmentally appropriate reading materials. Interestingly enough, the Committee decided right from the start to publish only positive reviews and recommendations.

Its first product was a modest pamphlet, but more ambitious lists soon followed. Eventually, with a rapidly expanding number of new children's books being published, the Committee adopted a more organized reviewing process, which continues to this day.

For many years the Committee's reviews appeared in the monthly (and later quarterly) magazine published by the Association. When the magazine was discontinued, the Committee compiled its own annual booklet, the "Children's Books of the Year," which has been published and distributed yearly since 1936.

The Committee eventually expanded its mandate in a number of significant ways. It collected and edited anthologies of children's stories and published specific lists in response to requests from parents, organizations, or specific needs that arose in the community. It also arranged lectures to promote public interest in children's literature and invited children to discuss their preferences in books, which eventually led to the inclusion of Young Reviewers on the Committee.

In addition, the Committee established an annual award in 1942 to encourage the writing and publishing of books "for children and young people dealing realistically with some of the problems in the world." The Committee now also bestows an annual award for the best poetry book for young readers as well as an award for a nonfiction book that "serves as an inspiration for young readers."

By 1977, the Child Study Association was forced to discontinue its programs because of financial difficulties, but the Children's Book Committee was invited to continue its groundbreaking work at the Bank Street College of Education, where it remains to this day. Here its outreach broadened, not only in increasing the circulation of its list, but in the wider range of its membership.

Today's Committee comprises some 40 members—all volunteers—from various professions and backgrounds concerned with children and books: writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, teachers, and parents. Members use their skills and expertise to foster the unique point of view bequeathed to us by our founding organization—namely, how books can affect young readers, and what books can do for them. (English, Member-written)
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(See also Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature)

(See also Cook Prize)

The Children's Book Committee was founded more than 100 years ago to help parents, teachers, and librarians choose the books that children will find captivating and transforming. One of the most comprehensive annotated book lists for children, aged infant through 16. The Committee reviews over 6,000 titles annually for accuracy and literary quality and considers their emotional impact on children. The best 600 books published each year, both fiction and nonfiction, are listed with annotations, according to age and category. Included are the past editions that are currently available online. Reference copies of editions published in print before 2010 may be found in the Bank Street College Library. (English, Member-written)

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