- History, Insurgency, Fiction, Air pilots
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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Earnest, grave, classical in form and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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- The GuardianLinda Buckley-ArcherMar 2012Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein – review
An exciting and affecting female adventure story
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About the book
- Author
- Elizabeth Wein
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 348
- Publisher
- Hyperion Books, Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, Thorndike Press Large Print
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781405278423
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Elizabeth E. Wein (/wiːn/, born October 2, 1964) is an American-born writer best known for her young adult historical fiction. She holds both American and British citizenship.
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