A Year Without Autumn

Haunt Me

The Tail of Emily Windsnap

Has Anyone Seen Jessica Jenkins?

Code Name Kingfisher

Philippa Fisher and the Fairy Godsister

War Games

Lucky Strikes

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Emily Windsnap series, Liz Kessler, comes a poignant and harrowing story of three young friends whose fates are intertwined during the devastation of the Holocaust—based on a true story.

Three friends. One memory.
Vienna. 1936.

Three young friends—Leo, Elsa, and Max—spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly ripped apart from one another. With their lives taking them across Europe—to Germany, England, Prague, and Poland—will they ever find their way back to one another? Will they want to?

Inspired by a true story, When the World Was Ours is an extraordinary novel that is as powerful as it is heartbreaking and that shows how the bonds of love, family, and friendship allow glimmers of hope to flourish, even in the most hopeless of times.

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A Year Without Autumn

Liz Kessler, 2011

Haunt Me

Liz Kessler, 2016

The Tail of Emily Windsnap

Sarah Gibb, Liz Kessler, 2003

Has Anyone Seen Jessica Jenkins?

Liz Kessler, 2014

Code Name Kingfisher

Liz Kessler, 2023

Philippa Fisher and the Fairy Godsister

Liz Kessler, 2008

War Games

Audrey Couloumbis, Akila Couloumbis, 2009

Lucky Strikes

Louis Bayard, 2016