Week 2: World War II Fiction

Title: Code Name Verity
Author: Elizabeth Wein
ISBN: 9781423152194
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Copyright Year: 2012
Publishing City: New York
Reading Level: Grades 6 and up

Themes: World War II, Britain, Spies, Friendship, Occupied France, confessions, Nazi Occupation
Awards: 2013 Michael L. Printz honor book, shortlisted for Carnegie Medal, 2013 Golden Kite Honor, 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best YA Novel 
Thumbs Up or Down?: Thumbs up! I really liked this book!
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My Summary: This is the story of two women who meet during World War II. One is a pilot and the other is a spy. During their flight they crash land in occupied France and one is captured by the Gestapo. She is forced with a choice: Reveal the secrets of the mission or be tortured and ultimately put to death for her silence. She decides to do the latter, but it isn't exactly what the Nazi's are expecting. Through her confession she tells the story of how two women became friends and set out on an impossible mission.You will have to read the story to see if the two women are reunited and if Maddie, the spy will survive.

My Review: I really enjoyed this book because I love stories about World War II! I love all of the little details that the author includes to illustrate the world these two women are existing in.The characters are well developed and there is a lot of action that kept me interested as a reader.The details of the women's friendship is touching and attaches the reader to the characters. I enjoy stories of this kind where we hear a well-known story from a different point of view. Just as the novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, showed us the Holocaust from a child's perspective we now see a World War II perspective from a woman's point of view. I would definitely recommend this book to my friends and patrons!