Bookverdict.com

Gr 8 Up—This companion novel to Wein's Code Name Verity (Hyperion, 2012) tells a very different World War II story, with a different pilot. Rose Justice, an American, has grown up flying, and when she is given the opportunity to ferry planes to support the war effort in England in 1944, she jumps at the chance. It is during one of her missions that she purposefully knocks an unmanned V-1 flying bomb out of the sky and is captured by Nazi airmen. Once on the ground, she is taken to the infamous women's concentration camp, Ravensbrück. She ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Wein plunges into difficult territory in this engrossing companion novel to her lavishly honored Code Name Verity (rev. 5/12). Rose Justice, eighteen-year-old American pilot, delivers personnel and planes for Britain’s Air Transport Auxiliary. On her way home from liberated Paris in 1944, she’s captured by Germans and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women’s concentration camp, where she’s beaten, starved, and forced to transport corpses of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Told through journal entries, this is a fast-paced, high-tension story. As soon as Rose is captured by the Nazis, her life is at stake, and readers won’t want to put down the book until they learn Rose’s fate. Much of the plot occurs in a concentration camp where the Nazis conduct experiments on prisoners. Whether the novel’s audience is familiar with these atrocities or not, medical ethics and the significance of the Reich’s research are fascinating su...Log In or Sign Up to Read More