CODE NAME VERITY

I have two weeks You ll shoot me at the end no matter what I do Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal Code Name Verity is a bestselling tale of friendship and courage set against the backdrop of World War Two Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat one a pilot the other a special operations executive When a vital mission goes wrong and one of the friends has to bail out of a faulty plane over France she is captured by the Gestapo and becomes a prisoner of war The story begins in Verity s own words as she writes her account for her captors Truth or lies Honour or betrayal Everything they ve ever believed in is put to the test Elizabeth Wein is a leading voice in young adult historical fiction Her novel Rose Under Fire was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Costa Award 2014 Fans of The Book Thief and Carmen Reid s Cross My Heart will love this Look out for Elizabeth s other books Black Dove White Swan and Rose Under Fire Elizabeth Wein was born in New York and grew up in England Jamaica and Pennsylvania She is married with two children and now lives in Perth Scotland Elizabeth is a member of the Ninety Nines the International Organization of Women Pilots She was awarded t