Code Name Verity

Wein, Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 1423152190 / ISBN 13: 9781423152194

Editore: Hyperion Books for Children, Boston, MA, U.S.A., 2012

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FINE in a FINE dust jacket. No award stickers to jacket; price unclipped of course. A Printz Honor book, Boston Globe Honor book, numerous starred reviews. Codice articolo 94011902

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Titolo: Code Name Verity

Casa editrice: Hyperion Books for Children, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

Data di pubblicazione: 2012

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Fine

Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine

autografato: Not Signed

Edizione: First US Stated; "1" in number Line

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Riassunto:

Oct. 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 Michael L. Printz Award Honor book that was called "a fiendishly-plotted mind game of a novel" in The New York Times, 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.

L'autore:

Elizabeth Wein (www.elizabethwein.com) was born in New York City, grew up abroad, and currently lives in Scotland with her husband and two children. She is an avid flyer of small planes and is the editor of the Scottish Aero Club's newsletter. She also holds a PhD in Folklore from the University of Pennsylvania.