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Elizabeth Wein

USA / UK · WWII — young adult fiction

About

American-born novelist and pilot living in Scotland. Code Name Verity, about a captured British agent and her pilot friend, won a Printz Honor.

Books in Database (1)

Code Name Verity cover
Code Name Verity 2012 · 339 pages

A captured British agent writes her confession for the Gestapo — a story of two girls, a Lysander, and what friendship costs.

Historical Fiction

Events Covered

1940 Battle of Britain & The Blitz