{"id":460,"date":"2012-11-21T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AuchinleckAcademyLibrary\/?p=460"},"modified":"2012-11-21T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T12:24:00","slug":"code-name-verity-by-elizabeth-wein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/2012\/11\/21\/code-name-verity-by-elizabeth-wein\/","title":{"rendered":"Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AuchinleckAcademyLibrary\/files\/2012\/11\/verity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-461\" title=\"verity\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AuchinleckAcademyLibrary\/files\/2012\/11\/verity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Two young women become unlikely best friends during WWII, until one is captured by the Gestapo. Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a special operations executive. Yet whenever their paths cross, they complement each other perfectly and before long become devoted to each other.<br \/>\nBut then a vital mission goes wrong, and one of the friends has to bail out of a faulty plane over France. She is captured by the Gestapo and becomes a prisoner of war. The story begins in &#8220;Verity&#8217;s&#8221; own words, as she writes her account for her captors.<br \/>\nTruth or lies? Honour or betrayal? Everything they&#8217;ve ever believed in is put to the test&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong><em>It is a very good book but it takes too long and is a bit confusing sometimes and takes a while to get into it. But it is a very interesting book. S (S2) ***<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong><em>Very confusing at the start and may confuse other readers. M (S2) *<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong><em>It was good but it was a bit confusing. S (S2) ****<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><em><strong>A brilliant book, very interesting. I couldn&#8217;t put it down.<em> A (S1) *****<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><em><strong><em>Boring book. It&#8217;s a bit confusing. P (S2)<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><em><strong><em>It was a very good book. It was a bit confusing but if you read to the end you would have got it. M (S1) ****<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two young women become unlikely best friends during WWII, until one is captured by the Gestapo. Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a special operations executive. Yet whenever their paths cross, they complement each other perfectly and before long become devoted &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,6,17,92,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendship","category-historical-stories","category-teenage-fiction","category-wein","category-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}