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Code Name Verity

(2012)
(The first book in the Code Name Verity series)
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Awards
2013 Agatha Award for Best Children/Young Adult Fiction (nominee)
2013 Carnegie Medal (nominee)
2013 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel
2013 Michael L. Printz Award (nominee)
2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel (nominee)

Code Name Verity is a compelling, emotionally rich story with universal themes of friendship and loyalty, heroism and bravery.

Two young women from totally different backgrounds are thrown together during World War II: one a working-class girl from Manchester, the other a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a wireless operator. Yet whenever their paths cross, they complement each other perfectly and before long become devoted friends. But then a vital mission goes wrong, and one of the friends has to bail out of a faulty plane over France. She is captured by the Gestapo and becomes a prisoner of war. The story begins in "Verity's" own words, as she writes her account for her captors.


Genre: Young Adult Fiction

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