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Code Name Verity

Elizabeth Wein

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#901 of 8,085 books · #39 in Young Adult

Won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel (2013). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

Code Name Verity won the Michael L. Printz Award Honor. October 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?

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Publisher
Hachette UK
ISBN-13
9781423153252
Topics
World War IIFriendshipEspionageCourage and survivalNazi-occupied France

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