Code name Verity
Title
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Code name Verity
Personal Author EPSB
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Elizabeth, Wein
Summary
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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.
Year Published
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2012-2013
Physical Description
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343 pages ; 21 cm
Awards
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2015 Young Reader's Choice Award YRCA Senior nominee
Subject
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German -- Fiction.
Nazis -- Fiction
Women air pilots -- Fiction
Air pilots -- Fiction
Friendship -- Fiction
Insurgency -- Fiction
Young adult fiction
Geographic Term
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France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- George VI, 1936-1952 -- Fiction
Summary
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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.
ISBN
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9780385676571
9781423152194
9780385676540
9781423187097
Publisher
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[Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, [2013]
©2012
Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
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D.S. MacKenzie | FIC WEI | Book | 30522000332137 | Historical Fiction |