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Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
4.0
Supremely well written but terribly painful... but what else did one expect of a book with Gestapo in it?
PG-13 instances of language... and this may technically be a YA book, but I certainly wouldn't classify it that way. I was reminded a little of Devil's Arithmetic.... anybody else read that in middle school? Well, think of something related to that but cranked up several degrees higher in intensity. It doesn't take place in a concentration camp, but in a Gestapo headquarters in France, though there is narrative in England as well. The story is about two young women, one a pilot, one a "special operative" in Britain during World War II. They are the best of friends. Heartbreaking, horrendous things happen.
The book is tightly plotted and the two main characters are well realized... they would have to be, to give the climax its emotional wallop.
Anyway, I don't make it my business to recommend such books, unless you occasionally go in for this sort of thing, something powerful, something that holds up both the bright and the darkest dark of humanity.
PG-13 instances of language... and this may technically be a YA book, but I certainly wouldn't classify it that way. I was reminded a little of Devil's Arithmetic.... anybody else read that in middle school? Well, think of something related to that but cranked up several degrees higher in intensity. It doesn't take place in a concentration camp, but in a Gestapo headquarters in France, though there is narrative in England as well. The story is about two young women, one a pilot, one a "special operative" in Britain during World War II. They are the best of friends. Heartbreaking, horrendous things happen.
The book is tightly plotted and the two main characters are well realized... they would have to be, to give the climax its emotional wallop.
Anyway, I don't make it my business to recommend such books, unless you occasionally go in for this sort of thing, something powerful, something that holds up both the bright and the darkest dark of humanity.