She is currently working on non-fiction for young people about the women who flew as combat pilots in the Soviet Union during World War II. Elizabeth also has a science fiction novel to her name, Cobalt Squadron, set in the Star Wars universe and connected to the 2017 release The Last Jedi. Her 2017 novel, The Pearl Thief, is a young adult mystery set in Scotland in 1938 and stars the appealing narrator of Code Name Verity in her madcap youth. She earned a private pilot’s license there in 2003 and now holds both British and American citizenship. Elizabeth never got over this travel bug and has lived abroad for over 20 years, settling in Scotland in 2000 with her husband and two children. When they discover that Queeniereal name Julie, code name Verityis alive and being held by the Gestapo, together they attempt a daring rescue as prisoners are being transferred to a. Join us in welcoming author Elizabeth Wein and her breathtaking book: CODE NAME VERITY as Portage's 2018 Communiteen READ/ Author Event at the Air Zoo.ĭuring WWII, an Allied special agent is captured by the Gestapo and forced to tell them everything she knows-thus betraying her best friend, a British civilian pilot, who is stranded with her in German-occupied France.Įlizabeth Wein’s childhood was shaped by five years spent in England and Jamaica, where her father, an educational psychologist, was engaged in teacher training for the Headstart program in its formative years.
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