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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Code Name Kingfisher
Liz Kessler
Ages: 12+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Aladdin/Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-6659-2973-8
Keywords: Historical Fiction-Jews, Amsterdam, Siblings, Family Secrets, Resistance, Nazis, WWII, Grandmothers and Granddaughters, Holocaust
Liv's bubbe has never talked about her past, but when Liv is assigned a family history school project, she learns about her grandmother's extraordinary life in Holland during World War II.