Code Name Verity discussion

So lately I read Code Name Verity, The Book Thief, Number The Stars, and The Diary Of Anne Frank.

I found myself loving these books, and learning more about WWII.

Does anyone have any recommendations for similar YA WWII books?

Anyone? Just posting to move this up a bit.

I hear Between Shades of Gray and If I Should Die Before I Wake are amazing, but haven't read them yet. The only other YA books I can think of are Milkweed, and maybe The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Neither is as good as the ones you just read, though.

In the non-YA department, I would recommend Sarah's Key, Mr. Churchill's Secretary, and All the Light We Cannot See. Although they aren't YA, these are very good books about different aspects of WWII, so you might want to try them. Maybe The Bronze Horseman as well, although it contains sex and a disturbingly realistic portrayal of war and suffering.

For more WWII YA books you might want to try these two lists (here and here). I hope you find a book you like :)

Also try:
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (not YA specifically but if you liked the others you've mentioned, then you'll be Ok with this)

Gretel and the Dark by Eliza Granville

There's also another book by Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire which has a couple of the same minor characters from Code Name Verity.

Thanks!

"Night" is also a must-read in terms of WWII literature. It's the memoir of Elie Wiesel, who was in a concentration camp at the age of 16. "Someone Named Eva" is also a very interesting YA fiction reader about a lesser known episode of WWII in which the Nazis kidnapped Polish, Czech, and other Eastern European with blonde hair and blue eyes, "Germanized" them, and then put them up for adoption to German families, even knowing their birth parents were still alive and hadn't willfully given them up for adoption.

Sarah's key, although it isn't YA the main charactor is a teenager and I absolutely loved Rose Under Fire.

Gone to Ground: One woman's extraordinary account of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany is not YA lit but it's a real memoir of a jewis woman who went into hiding in Berlin and how she managed to survive and it's really interesting, harrowing and worth a read.
Tamar is a YA that flashes between two spy/agents in Holland and a granddaughter gradually finding out what went on whilst they were there. It's a great mystery and also gives you a real feel for the period.
Going Solo is Roald Dahl#s recounting of his experiences in the war, plus a little time before that and maybe a little after. He had some really funny and also really amazing experiences and they're great to read about.
Hitler's Canary is perhaps more of a children's book but it tells the little told story of Denmark after its occupation by Nazi Germany. It's about the resistance and the movement to protect the Jewis people in Denmark from the concentration camps.
Life After Life isn't YA either but it's so, so good. Just, please read it.
And if you've not read it Private Peaceful is so, so sad and really quick to read. It's actually about World War One but I'm going to recommend it anyway because I know so many people (including myself) that it meant a lot to.

I have read many listed, and agree that some are simply amazing, including Code Name Verity.

I thought that The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult was simply delicious. Half the story is WWII - soooo good.

My very very fave WWII book is The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. The best book I have read this year. And that is saying a lot.

Neither of these is YA.

It's not YA and very long, but I've recommended it to teenagers who liked it a lot:

The Winds of War by Herman Wouk and its sequel, War and Remembrance.

Essentially the whole story of World War II through one widely dispersed family. Some of the best books I've ever read.

The Man From Berlin

To Die In Spring

By Ralf Rothmann

The Jock Miles Series

Noah wrote: "So lately I read Code Name Verity, The Book Thief, Number The Stars, and The Diary Of Anne Frank.

I found myself loving these books, and learning more about WWII.

Does anyone have any recommenda..."


You should read All But My Life, The Boys in the Striped Pajamas, and the other books in the Code Name Verity Series.