Weins, E. (2012). Code Name Verity. New York, NY: Hyperion.
A young woman captured by the Gestapo in France as a British spy is given a temporary reprieve from torture by agreeing to write down everything she can about British war effort. But the story she tells seems one of personal friendship rather than political intrigue. It's a tale of two young women, Maddie and Julie. One a pilot for the war effort, one something far more mysterious. It was Maddie who flew the plane from which Julie parachuted behind enemy lines before it crashed in Elizabeth Wein's engrossing work of historical fiction. Saved by the Resistance, she's in hiding while awaiting a rescue flight when she discovers the fate of her best friend Julie, now a Gestapo prisoner.
This book is for high school students that are studying about Adolf Hitler during that time frame. The book is based on true events and might seem disturbing. Maddie experience moral development when she kills her best friend Julie.
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