# Code Name Kingfisher

**Author:** Liz Kessler
**Grade range:** Grades 4–8
**Age range:** 9–13
**First published:** 2024
**Page count:** 336
**Genre:** Historical Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781665929738`
**ISBN-10:** `1665929731`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/code-name-kingfisher
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

In the present day, Liv finds a hidden box that uncovers her grandmother's wartime secret: as a Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied Holland, she and her sister were hidden by a resistance network under code names. Liz Kessler weaves past and present into a gripping story of courage and survival. Nominated for the 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award (grades 4-8), the statewide reading list Maine students read from and vote on.

## Themes

- history
- courage
- family
- survival

## Content notes

- Holocaust
- WWII peril

## Where this book is assigned

### Maine Student Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Maine — [source: 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award Reading List (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/home)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Maine — [source: 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award Reading List (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/home)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Maine — [source: 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award Reading List (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/home)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Maine — [source: 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award Reading List (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/home)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Maine — [source: 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award Reading List (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/home)

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