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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2013
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
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013 | Older Fiction
Rose Justice, an eighteen-year-old American pilot delivering personnel and planes for Britain in 1944, is captured and sent to notorious German women's conc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on November 1, 2013
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