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Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
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Code Name Verity (edition 2013)

by Elizabeth Wein

Series: Young Pilots (1), Code Name Verity (1)

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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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Title:Code Name Verity
Authors:Elizabeth Wein
Info:Disney-Hyperion (2013), Paperback, 368 pages
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Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

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I've really wanted to review a few recent books I've read, but it's been a while! Maybe I'll come back and edit this later if I manage to actually put my thoughts together, but for now: good book! Really good book! While I was reading I was really drawn in to the characters, desperate to find out what happened to them, and a few times surprised and delighted by little twists in the narrative that made me realise that something completely different to what I'd been expecting was, in fact, being constructed. ( )
  unsurefooted | Feb 25, 2024 |
Excellent read. The book starts with the written confessions of a captured Scottish operative whose blabbing secrets to the Germans. Right off the bat I'm thinking "I do not like this girl". But that ends quickly as the plot twists pile up. An excellent reminder of what lengths we can go to for those we love. This is an excellent story and a must read. ( )
  tvemulapalli | Jan 22, 2024 |
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The first in a series about child spies! The POV switches from first to third person, and is the confessions of an unreliable narrator under Nazi torture. The writing is clever and effective.
  Amanda_Howse | Jan 15, 2024 |
very well constructed and exciting. I loved this book and had a very hard time putting It down to attend to my life. the author did a surprise or two and created am emotional, beautiful story. ( )
  mslibrarynerd | Jan 13, 2024 |
I blubbered and sobbed my way through the last of this. I'm completely gormless. Kiss me, Hardy! Ugh. I'm going to go to back to crying now and I'll try to write a review later.

Notes to self:
-Anne Frank, Maddie comparison
-Atonement comparison
-Book Thief comparison (which is better? can I choose?)
-want to listen to audiobook
-I hate Nazis
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  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
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If you pick up this book, it will be some time before you put your dog-eared, tear-stained copy back down. Wein succeeds on three fronts: historical verisimilitude, gut-wrenching mystery, and a first-person voice of such confidence and flair that the protagonist might become a classic character if only we knew what to call her. Alternately dubbed Queenie, Eva, Katharina, Verity, or Julie depending on which double-agent operation she's involved in, she pens her tale as a confession while strapped to a chair and recovering from the latest round of Gestapo torture. The Nazis want the codes that Julie memorized as a wireless operator, and she supplies them, but along the way also tells of her fierce friendship with Maddie, a British pilot. Though delivered at knifepoint, Julie's narrative is peppered with dark humor and minor acts of defiance, and the tension that builds up is practically unbearable.
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Wein, Elizabeth—primary authorall editionsconfirmed
Christie, MorvenNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gaskell, LucyNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Jansson, CarinaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Manger, WhitneyDesignersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
November, SharynEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Canonical title
Code Name Verity
Original title
Code Name Verity
Alternative titles
Original publication date
2012-06-02
People/Characters
Julia "Queenie" Beaufort-Stuart
Maddie Brodatt
Anna Engel
Amadeus von Linden
Jamie Beaufort-Stuart
Important places
Manchester, England, UK
Ormaie, France
Important events
World War II, German Occupation of France (1940 | 1944)
French Resistance
World War II (1939 | 1945)
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Epigraph
"Passive resisters must understand that they are as important as saboteurs." –SOE Secret Operations Manual, 'Methods of Passive Resistance'
Dedication
For Amanda

–we make a sensational team–
First words
I AM A COWARD. I wanted to be heroic and I pretended I was. I have always been good at pretending.
Quotations
I have told the truth.
"Kiss me, Hardy!"
The soaring mountains rose around her, and the poets' waters glittered beneath her in the valleys of memory—hosts of golden daffodils, "Swallows and Amazons", Peter Rabbit. (p. 28)
Fly the plane, Maddie.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)
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Publisher's editors
November, Sharyn (Viking Children's Books)
Paskins, Stella (Egmont UK)
Onder, Catherine (Disney Hyperion Books for Children)
Black, Amy (Doubleday Canada)
Blurbers
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Stiefvater, Maggie
Original language
Canonical DDC/MDS
813.6
Canonical LCC
PZ7.W4358
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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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During World War II, a female civilian pilot and a female espionage agent form an unbreakable bond of friendship even as they find their lives threatened in Occupied France.
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Two girls, one friendship
we concealed in blood and ink.
I have told the truth.
(octopedingenue)

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823.92Literature › English & Old English literatures › English fiction › Modern Period › 2000-

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