Code Name Verity

Wein, Elizabeth. (2012). Code name Verity. NY: Egmont.

This story is about Maddie and Julie.  They become friends while working for the Royal Air Service during WWII.  Maddie is a pilot and Julie is a secret operator.   They are sent on a secret mission to France.  Julie jumps out and lands and ends up getting caught in Ormaie.  She thinks Maddie has crashed and is shown pictures of the plane with radios and a burned up body by her capture Caption Von Linden.  Maddie really survived the crash and they set up the crash and burning and hid the real cargo which was explosives.  Maddie finds out that Julie is still alive and they try to save her, unfortunately Maddie ends up having to kill her friend to save her from further torture.

The hard choice that Maddie had to make made me cry.  When Julie heard her crying and then yelled out "Kiss me Hardy!, Kiss me, quick! and turned her head and then Maddie shot her.  I don't know if I could have been that strong.  This would be a good book for high school students to read.  It shows the two different view points of the main characters and what happened. 

This plot in the book had dual narratives with Julie and Maddie telling their stories.