Elizabeth Wein
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume Prequel
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in a hospital not knowing how she was injured, and soon befriends Euan McEwen, the Scottish Traveller boy who found her, and later, when a body is discovered, she experiences the prejudices his family has endured and tries to keep them from being framed for the crime.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
437 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in multiple voices, fifteen-year-old Jamaican Louisa Adair uncovers an Enigma machine in the small Scottish village where she cares for an elderly German woman, and helps solve a puzzle that could turn the tide of World War II.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Having moved to Ethiopia to avoid the prejudices of 1930s America, Emilia Menotti, her black adoptive brother Teo, and their mother Rhoda, a stunt pilot, are devoted to their new country even after war with Italy looms, drawing the teens into the conflict.
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