I think it would be a good book for many adults to read, as well. :) It has been a long time since a book got all of those responses from me.Ĭode Name Verity is a wonderful book. It made me throw it across the room angrily and it also made me keep it next to my bed even after I finished it just to keep me company. This book made me laugh and it made me cry. There are bursts of foul language ('f-k,' f-king,' 's-t,' etc.), with British variants and often translated into French and/or German. Characters face terrible dangers, and some die horribly. Author Elizabeth Wein pulls few punches as she describes the grim realities of war, the Resistance, the nasty details of Nazi torture (including via cigarette), and an otherwise heroic Resistance leader who can't keep his hands off any female within reach. girls on a covert operation for the Allies imperiled after they crash-land in Nazi-occupied France. Parents need to know that 2013 Printz Honor Book Code Name Verity takes place in the darkest days of World War II, with two teen U.K. Cigarettes are sometimes used as instruments of torture and also as gifts, and cognac is used as an element of subterfuge.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.

Minor Charactersīeryl is Maddie's working-class friend from Manchester who is with her when she sees her first.Characters, generally adults, smoke cigarettes (accurate for the era) and drink alcohol. Julie always refers to him as the 'Bloody. Not surprisingly, neither of these are his real name. Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God / John Balliol Damaskĭamask is the code name of the eighty-three-year-old rose grower the Resistance circuit is named.

The youngest child of the Thibaut family, Amélie, who mostly goes by her real name, gets. The American newspaper reporter who works on Nazi propaganda, Georgia Penn is yet another. The English SOE operative in charge of Damask circuit, Paul (not his real name, which. Mitraillette, whose code name is French for 'submachine gun,' is the elder daughter of the.

The Nazi officer in charge of the Ormaie Gestapo, Julie's interrogation, and her confession, von. Jamie Beaufort-StuartĪnybody who can maintain the sense of humor Jamie does about losing all his toes and four of his. On-Duty-Female-Guard-Engel the Slave Girl just plain old. Margaret, Maddie, Kittyhawk, Käthe Habicht… we'll go with Maddie.Early in their. Whew, that's a lot of names, but such is life for a spy during World War II.

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