I confess that my resolve wavered a little during the early chapters of Elizabeth Wein’s terrific novel, “Code Name: Verity.” This wasn’t because I found Wein’s fictional account of two gallant young ...

When a British spy plane transporting best friends Maddie and Julie crashes in Nazi-occupied France, the two young women are thrown into an increasingly harrowing nightmare that explores the anguish ...

Here are some things you should know about The Pearl Thief if you haven't read Elizabeth Wein's earlier book Code Name Verity: it stands perfectly well on its own, and you don't need to know anything ...

On a moonlit night in 1943, two best friends are flying over the serene English Channel, past an island citadel, over a silvery bay and on toward Nazi-occupied France. The two women are split apart ...

You wouldn’t expect a novel about a teenager in a concentration camp to be even remotely uplifting, but “Rose Under Fire,” Elizabeth Wein’s follow-up to the historical blockbuster “Code Name Verity,” ...

This companion to Wein's Printz Honor- and Edgar-winning Code Name Verity introduces Rose Justice, a Pennsylvania teenager and volunteer civilian pilot during WWII. Rose is ferrying a Spitfire back to ...