[Reviewlet] Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein
by Lauren Hall
With her latest novel, Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein pushes the limits of the YA genre.
Lauren Hall is a Philadelphia-based freelance writer. She is a columnist at Bookish and a contributor to Fiction Writers Review and Metropolis Philadelphia. Her prose poetry is forthcoming inNANO Fiction. A graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, she is currently at work on a collection of prose poetry. Please visit her at laurenhallwriting.com.
With her latest novel, Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein pushes the limits of the YA genre.
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