Code Name Verity

Elizabeth Wein

Disney-Hyperion, May 15, 2012 - Juvenile Fiction - 352 pages

Oct. 11th, 1943?A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.

When “Verity” is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.

As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?

A Michael L. Printz Award Honor book that was called “a fiendishly-plotted mind game of a novel” in The New York Times, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other.

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**I received an e-galley of this book for free through Netgalley** I am writing this review at 2:00 am. I had about 20% of the book left when I picked it up at midnight, struck by mild insomnia. Now I ...

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I am fighting inside about how to rate this one. This book is loved by many, many people who I respect and this is one of the times where I felt a bit of peer pressure to love a book. But I really ...

About the author

Elizabeth Wein (www.elizabethwein.com) was born in New York City, grew up abroad, and currently lives in Scotland with her husband and two children. She is an avid flyer of small planes and is the editor of the Scottish Aero Club's newsletter. She also holds a PhD in Folklore from the University of Pennsylvania.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Code Name Verity; Booklist Editor's Choice. Books for Youth
• Author: Elizabeth Wein
• Publisher: Disney-Hyperion, 2012
• ISBN: 1423152190, 9781423152194
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Europe; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Holocaust; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Military & Wars; Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories; Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Friendship