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Song of a Blackbird, February 2025
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Song of a Blackbird
Maria van Lieshout

First Second
February 2025
On Sale: January 21, 2025
Featuring: Emma Bergsma
256 pages
ISBN: 125086982X
EAN: 9781250869821
Kindle: B0DMLKNTRR
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Young Adult | Graphic Novel

Fight hate. Make art.

In 1943 Amsterdam, Emma Bergsma’s world changes when she witnesses Jewish families being forcibly deported to concentration camps. That pivotal moment lights a fire within her, and she decides to join the Dutch Resistance. Before long, Emma is drawn into a clandestine world of printing presses and counterfeiters, with thousands of lives on the line.

In 2011 Amsterdam, teenage Annick’s world has changed as well. A search for a bone marrow donor for her beloved oma leads to a shocking revelation: her grandmother was secretly adopted as a child. The only clues to finding their lost family are a series of art prints hanging on the wall—each signed by a mysterious “Emma B.”

This timely graphic novel weaves together two timelines to reveal how art, in the face of political upheaval and nearly insurmountable adversity, can become our greatest lifeline.

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