City of Spies

Sep 29, 20181 min read

by Susan Kim & Laurence Klavan; artwork by Pascal Dizin. New York, NY: First Second, 2010.

About two friends in the New York City during the early 1940’s and World War II who after watching a Newsreel in the movies feel it’s their civic responsibility to watch people around them in the hopes of uncovering Nazi spies.

Grades 4-8

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