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Code Name Midlands By Elizabeth Wein: Summary

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Code Name Verity
Best friends The book I chose to read is Code Name Verity by: Elizabeth Wein. I had a difficult time reading this book. Also, didn't get interested in it; very rough to focus with the book out of order. I cannot recommend this book enough. Such an interesting brutal tale of WW II, with a powerful friendship during it all. Although from it being confusing it was a good book, personally I wouldn't read it again. Elizabeth Wein is a good writer, not one of my favorite writers, but she knows how to tell tales.
The narrator in this book is verity she is telling her story and making up her story of how it goes, because she didn't really know what's happening out in Ormaie. Verity is telling us her point of view first then the second part of the book Maddie tells her point of view of what is all happening. They are both confused and scared but they have to be confident in what they are doing so nothing can happen to them. Kitty Hawk is the one that got safe and has to try to save Verity.
In 1943 Nazi-occupied France, the British spy plane crashes in a town that is fictional and it is called Ormaie. When Julie is captured, she starts writing a novel about how she has been captured. Second part of the book is Maddies telling us how she tries to safe Julie. During when the plane crashes, the plane left Julie and Maddie both in France and that …show more content…

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