Code Name Verity / Elizabeth Wein / 343 pages / Scottish/Irish Challenge

This is an intriguing and informative story of courage, determination, and friendship.  Maddie is a Scottish pilot and jack-of-all-trades capable of making repairs on planes as well as flying them.  Although she fhas logged more flight time than all the boys, she cannot officially fly.  She does not hesitate to volunteer to fly a plnae when an undercover resistance operation in in desperate need of a pilot. Unfortunately, the plane is fired upon and in danger of crashing.  Maddie convinces her best friend, Julie, to parachute out to maximize her chances of survival after which Maddie will crash land the plane.  Julie is captured by the Germans, tortured, threatened with execution, and forced to write all she knows of resistance operations, flights, and contacts.  Write she does...but what she writes helps the Allies instead of the Germans.