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Code Name Verity (Anniversary Edition) Paperback – Special Edition, May 10, 2022
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The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, a "fiendishly plotted" (New York Times) "heart-in-your mouth adventure" (Washington Post), that "will take wing and soar into your heart" (Laurie Halse Anderson) -- now with a new bonus chapter.
October 11th, 1943 -- A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.
When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.
As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?
A universally acclaimed Edgar Award winner, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other. This updated edition features a brand-new short story, essay from the author, a discussion guide, and more.
**Don't miss Elizabeth Wein's next masterpiece, Stateless, available for preorder now!
- Print length400 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLittle, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Publication dateMay 10, 2022
- Grade level9 and up
- Reading age14 years and up
- Dimensions5.45 x 1.35 x 8.3 inches
- ISBN-100316426318
- ISBN-13978-0316426312
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Elizabeth Wein is a recreational pilot and the owner of about a thousand maps. Flight inspires her writing for young adults, including her bestselling World War II thriller Code Name Verity, Rose Under Fire, Black Dove, White Raven, The Pearl Thief, and The Enigma Game, and her non-fiction book A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II. Elizabeth lives in Scotland and holds American and British citizenship. She is married to games developer Tim Gatland, and they have two grown children. She invites you to visit her at elizabethwein.com.
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- Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Special Edition (May 10, 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 400 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0316426318
- ISBN-13 : 978-0316426312
- Reading age : 14 years and up
- Grade level : 9 and up
- Item Weight : 12 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.45 x 1.35 x 8.3 inches
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About the author
I was born in New York City in 1964. My family spent two years in England and three years in Jamaica, and as a child I was fluent in Jamaican patois. When my parents separated, my mother moved us to her home state of Pennsylvania. When she died in a car accident in 1978, her wonderful mother, Betty Flocken, took me in.
After getting a BA from Yale University, I went back to England, where I learned to ring church bells in the English style known as "change ringing." While I was working on my PhD in Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania, I met my future husband at a bell ringers' dinner-dance. He is British, and in 1995 I moved to England with him, and we settled in Scotland in 2000, which is where we raised our two children and is where we live now. I hold both American and British citizenship.
I learned to fly in Scotland and took my private pilot's license in 2003. Inspired by this new skill, flying became the core theme of my writing over the past decades. I have now written numerous aviation-inspired fiction and non-fiction books for young people, and my best-known book, Code Name Verity, became a Number 1 New York Times bestseller.
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THE PREMISE
Verity was captured by the Germans while in France on a mission. She is then tortured and feels forced to give up eleven codes, becoming a traitor in the process. Okay that is all I feel comfortable saying, for I fear that any more will give two much away.
THE PROS
1. Verity and Maddie. They were amazing.
2. The concept. This concept of a spy and the things she faces feels so unique. This book just amazed me with how great the author managed to write the stories of both girls.
3. Verity and Maddie's friendship. This friendship was so amazing. I have never read a book with characters that touched my heart in the way that Maddie and Verity did. Their friendship was so strong and the cared so greatly for each other. It was a friendship so beautifully written and so amazingly strong. I cannot explain how epic this friendship was.
4. The writing style. The author wrote this in such a unique way, and it was so beautifully written. I just loved this.
5. I loved the ending. I'll leave it at that.
6. Okay there is A LOT more that I simply loved about this book, but I really can't write anymore because it will spoil the book. Writing this review is so hard because of the amount of things, seemingly insignificant at first, but really made up the latter part of the story.
THE CONS
1. I read part of this in public. (At a hockey game) Thankfully I didn't get to any parts that made me cry. (I only read for like fifteen minutes) Be forewarned; DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, READ THIS IN PUBLIC!! Because, trust me on this, you will look strange if tears are pouring down your face. (People, for some reason, might look at you funny or ask you what's wrong. That interruption would be awful for it would keep you from reading the book!)
2. This book is a slow burn kind of book. Normally I read really fast and will finish a book in less than a day. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE BOOKS. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but if your looking for a quick light read then do not read this book, for it is deep.
3. The beginning starts out slow. I picked it up and put it down several times. But hear me out on this because it picks up pretty quick. And becomes hard to put down.
OVERALL
This book (To re-establish a fact that I've already said many times) IS EPIC. My only regret about this book is I did not read it sooner. If you don't read this book I'm telling you that you are missing out. This is a book that will not be here today and gone tomorrow, I have a feeling that this book is going to stick around. Another con (which isn't really a con) is that this book upped all of my book standards. I have, since finishing this book two weeks ago, read other books and none of these book have lived up to these new standards. In fact they feel inadequate. (Well that's not entirely true because I have read other good books, but they lack the emotional impact I felt while reading Code Name Verity.) In fact I have taken two weeks to write this review in order to gather all my thoughts. Now looking back I realize that this is a rambley review with little information and no real reason why you should read this book other than the fact that it might (probably will, unless you are heartless) make you cry and that is an awful reason to read a book. This book, I don't know how to put this, was amazing. It is a book that YOU should pick up and read. You can go read other reviews and maybe decide this book isn't for you and there is no way I can think of that might actually convince you to read it. This is me telling you that, yeah maybe you don't like historical fiction or perhaps you don't like books that involve World War Two, because let's face it, that is extremely depressing subject matter. I'm asking you to give this book a chance, for it is possibly the best book I've read in my life. Okay I may be in High School and I may have not read all those classic books out there, but I'm saying this; this book has affected me above all else, it has shown me friendship and truth, and so many things that have touched my heart. I would go so far as to say that if I had to pick one book to read in my whole life, I would choose this book. So give this book a chance and maybe you'll feel the way I do or maybe you won't. It's up to you, but this is a book, in my opinion that no one should miss out on.
Thank you for reading my extremely biased review, that seems to ramble A LOT. I congratulate you upon your determination to see this review through to the end.
WOULD I READ THIS BOOK: YES
WOULD I BUY THIS BOOK: YES, it is worth the money
WOULD I REREAD THIS BOOK: YES.
WOULD I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK: YES! TO EVERYONE
WILL I READ MORE BY THIS AUTHOR: YES!!!!
Fav quote: (This is non-spoilery when read out of context) "Suddenly she laughed wildly and gave a shaking yell, her voice high and desperate. "KISS ME, HARDY! Kiss me, QUICK!""
This is one of those books where I wish I could rate higher than five stars.
Let's get what I didn't like out of the way first. The attention to detail, while meticulous and admirable, really bogged me down. There is paragraph after paragraph of this and at times I wished for more dialogue to break it up. If I'm being really honest, it took 50 pages to convince me not to put it down and 185 pages before I really started feeling invested in the characters. I think this is a case of "it's not you, it's me" because I've had this problem with other books where the level of detail and description is very high. Most other readers haven't taken issue with this, so just be aware and don't let it deter you from giving the book a shot.
The story itself is really fascinating. These two girls are working all sorts of jobs - mechanic, pilot, interrogator, super secret spy stuff, etc. that I had no idea were available to women at that time. If nothing else, this is a lovely history lesson in girl power! The friendship that exists between the main characters is also excellent and really a testament to how deep love for one another can go. I also found the willingness to sacrifice for others, loved ones and country, displayed by all the characters to be very refreshing. I thought often of my students and the young people who will soon be leaders of our world and how I don't feel quite as many have that same passion and drive anymore - I'd love to be pleasantly surprised one day though. Also, the ending of this book is quite heart-wrenching and I will admit to crying at the last page.
I have a lot of respect for the work Elizabeth Wein has done here. The research aspect is really amazing and the love she had for this story is quite evident. Did I love it? No. But I liked it a lot and would definitely recommend it to others. This is more a book I appreciated versus enjoyed, and I feel it is definitely one that everyone should read once because it is an important story.
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When a young woman is captured by the Gestapo in occupied France, she begins writing down an account for her captors about a plucky lass, Maddie from Manchester. Her story, told as one of her captors accuses ‘in novel form’, shows how Maddie learns to fly and becomes an Air Transport Auxiliary pilot. She befriends Queenie, an enigmatic Scottish aristocrat who is recruited as a spy by the Special Operations Executive. Through this account, the Gestapo learn secrets about the Allies war-effort as well as about the two young women – and the reader realises that the writer is Queenie.
"I of course took the opportunity to interpose wi’ pig-headed Wallace pride, ‘I am not English, you ignorant Jerry bastard, I am a SCOT."
Queenie is accused of being a collaborator, giving away crucial wireless codes and more for her ongoing survival. However, as this account spilled out with disturbing details, I wondered what was being revealed. Perhaps it was the novel’s opening quote about passive resisters that made me unsure about Queenie’s account. Or the truth is, as Queenie writes at the beginning, "I AM A COWARD" and a traitor?
What is truth? What is verity? That is the question in war when some sacrifices pay that ultimate price, and principals are abandoned. The atmosphere is rife with emotions – grief gives way to anger as the details are exposed of an era when so many died; what did they die for? The truth?
Although Queenie’s account is written for the Gestapo, it peels back their layers, even revealing cultural tastes.
"Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution."
There are moments of humour that distract and buy time. For whom? For what? On one level, it seems that the cost of this betrayal will be too high, yet I wanted Queenie to survive.
I just hoped that this was a masterful deception, and that a rescue was imminent. When the novel switches from Queenie’s POV to that of Maddie, I experienced new emotions – not just renewed hope. The voice changed, although the writer had already given us a taste of Maddie’s character as well as of the harsh existence in Occupied France.
To say more would require spoilers. Just know that Maddie’s story is as riveting with unexpected plot twists that play through to the end – to the truth, or should I say Verity.
All the characters are engaging, whether they are the older adults like the officer that recruits Queenie, or the young people on the frontline of this and so many other wars. Elizabeth Wein captures a deep sense of all those caught up in these life-changing events.
This is a brilliant and gritty YA novel that sweeps the reader along with the feisty and resourceful protagonists – pulled into their minds and actions. I felt I was witnessing the highs and lows of lives experienced in the face of the traumatic horrors of war
And running through the novel, adding another layer to the central characters, was the Neverland theme – poignant and beautiful.
"How did you ever get here, Maddie Brodatt?"
"'Second to the right, and then straight on till morning,'" she answered promptly-it did feel like Neverland.
"Crikey, am I so obviously Peter Pan?"
Maddie laughed. "The Lost Boys give it away."
Jamie studied his hands. "Mother keeps the windows open in all our bedrooms while we're gone, like Mrs. Darling, just in case we come flying home when she's not expecting us."
Code Name Verity must be my favourite read of 2018 as it played with all my emotions. I look forward to reading both the prequel the Pearl Thief – which is more in the style of a classic mystery - and Rose Under Fire a sequel of sorts.
Story – five stars
Setting/World-building – five stars
Authenticity – five stars
Characters – five stars
Structure – five stars
Readability – five stars
Editing – five stars
Storyline was about a crash landing in ww2, great n interesting! wld rate it a 9/10