Oct. 11, 1943, a British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it’s barely begun.

    When “Verity” is arrested by the Gestapo, she’s sure she doesn’t stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she’s living a spy’s worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators* give her a simple choice: tell her mission or face an execution*.

    As she weaves* her confession*, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage* of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting* her views on courage, failure and her hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?

    A Michael L. Printz Award honor book that was called “a fiendishly-plotted mind game of a novel” in The New York Times, “Code Name Verity” is a visceral* read of danger, resolve*, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other.

    Anyway, it’s a war book. It’s like many other war books for young readers, about the inhumanity of war and the humanity of the individuals writing it. There is violence, but it is mostly by reference, and there is fear, the book is thick with it, but each of the main characters makes a list of things she is afraid of, and both of them include failing other people.

    The book is available on amazon.cn.(SD-Agencies)