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Published: 29th November 2023
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Published: 3rd January 2024
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Published: 4th September 2024
Code Name Kingfisher
By (Author) Liz Kessler
Read by Genevieve Gaunt
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Simon & Schuster Ltd
29th November 2023
14th September 2023
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.92
Hardback
336
Width 135mm, Height 185mm, Spine 24mm
From million-copy bestselling author Liz Kessler comes thepowerful newlandmark World War II novelfor fans of Michael Morpurgo and Phil Earle.
When Liv finds a secret box from her grandmothers childhood she uncovers an extraordinary war-time story of bravery, betrayal and daring defiance. A story that will change Liv and her family forever
Holland, 1942. The world is at war and as the Nazis power grows, Jewish families are in terrible danger. Twelve-year-old Mila and her older sister Hannie are sent to live with a family in another city with new identities and the strict instruction not to tell anyone that they are Jewish.
Hannie, determined to fight back, is swept into the Dutch resistance as an undercover agent: Code Name Kingfisher. And though Mila does her best to make friends and keep out of trouble, there is danger at every turn and the sisters are soon left questioning who they can trust
Liz Kessler is the author of twenty-three books for children and young adults. Her books range from Early Readers to books for Young Adults and include the internationally best-selling series about half-mermaid Emily Windsnap. She has an MA in Novel Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University and has been a full-time author for the last twenty years.Her new novel,When the World Was Ours, was inspired by her fathers childhood escape from the Nazis just before the second world war. Liz lives with her wife and their dog in rural Cheshire.