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Code name Verity / Elizabeth Wein.

By: Wein, ElizabethMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Hyperion Books, 2012Edition: 1st Hyperion Books hardcover edDescription: 343 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9781423152194; 1423152190Subject(s): Women air pilots -- Fiction | Air pilots -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction | Friendship -- Fiction | Nazis -- Fiction | Espionage -- Fiction | Insurgency -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- 1936-1945 -- Fiction | France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- FictionDDC classification: [Fic] Summary: In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Barcode
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	YA Paperback	PHS Reading List	YA PB FICTION W	Available	36748002121657
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	YA Paperback	PHS Reading List	YA PB FICTION W	Available	36748002402636
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	YA Paperback	PHS Reading List	YA PB FICTION W	Available	36748002121533
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	YA Paperback	PHS Reading List	YA PB FICTION W	Available	36748002120980
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	YA Fiction	PHS Reading List	YA WEI	Available	36748002060921

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Don't miss Elizabeth Wein's stunning new novel, Stateless

The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, a "fiendishly plotted" ( New York Times ) " heart-in-your mouth adventure" ( Washington Post ) that "will take wing and soar into your heart" (Laurie Halse Anderson)

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?

A universally acclaimed Michael L. Printz Award Honor book, 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.

Includes bibliographical references.

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

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Kirkus Book Review

Breaking away from Arthurian legends (The Winter Prince, 1993, etc.), Wein delivers a heartbreaking tale of friendship during World War II. In a cell in Nazi-occupied France, a young woman writes. Like Scheherezade, to whom she is compared by the SS officer in charge of her case, she dribbles out information--"everything I can remember about the British War Effort"--in exchange for time and a reprieve from torture. But her story is more than a listing of wireless codes or aircraft types. Instead, she describes her friendship with Maddie, the pilot who flew them to France, as well as the real details of the British War Effort: the breaking down of class barriers, the opportunities, the fears and victories not only of war but of daily life. She also describes, almost casually, her unbearable current situation and the SS officer who holds her life in his hands and his beleaguered female associate, who translates the narrative each day. Through the layers of story, characters (including the Nazis) spring to life. And as the epigraph makes clear, there is more to this tale than is immediately apparent. The twists will lead readers to finish the last page and turn back to the beginning to see how the pieces slot perfectly, unexpectedly into place. A carefully researched, precisely written tour de force; unforgettable and wrenching. (Historical fiction. 14 up)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.