Code Name Verity

1 About this book

Code Name Verity is a young adult historical fiction novel by Elizabeth E. Wein published in 2012. It focuses on the friendship between two young British women in World War II: a spy captured by Nazis in German-occupied France and the pilot who took her there. It was named a Michael L. Printz Honor Book in 2013, and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

A loose sequel, Rose Under Fire, was published in 2013. A prequel novel, The Pearl Thief, was published in May 2017; it is a mystery involving Code Name Verity's protagonist Julie a year before the war starts.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: spy fiction and historical fiction.

• Espionage
• Spy stories
• Historical fiction
• Adventure
• France, history
• Great britain, history
• Insurgency
• Air pilots