Friday, November 18, 2016

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Recommendation
I would recommend this book as a future Junior Theme book because it had several identifiable topics that are suitable for a Junior Theme. A few themes are friendship and women's roles in World War II.  It was an overall engaging book.

Summary
Told as a written confession, Code Name Verity is about two friends both working as special operatives during World War II.  Julie is a spy and an interrogator and Maddie flies planes transporting spies and captives during the night.  Julie gets captured by the Nazis during a mission.  She is forced to write a confession, detailing everything she knows, but instead of the confession they were expecting, she writes a story of friendship.

Who would be interested in this book?
You would like this book if you like stories about war and internal struggles that accompany war. This book is also told from two different points of view, but the narratives are intertwined as each character recalls the same events, making them clearer.  If a complicated plot and a different writing style is interesting to you, this is an excellent book/

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