Code name Verity

Wein, Elizabeth. (2012). Code name Verity. NY: Egmont.  

Verity and Kittyhawk are best friends who are also spies. The story tells the story in 2 points of view. First, Verity is a prisoner of war. She is being tortured and forced to give up secrets. She is forced to write down any information or secrets that she knows or risk getting tortured.  She tells her captors that the pilot of the plane that dropped her off crashed and died.  The second part of the book reveals that Maggie, or Kittyhawk, escaped from the crash and has found refuge with farmers.  Maggie wants to find Verity and rescue her.  Unfortunately, things don't go as planned and Maggie kills Verity to keep her from telling anymore secrets.  Maggie knows Verity will be killed by her captors anyway, so she kills her first before she can reveal anymore than she already has. I would recommend this for high school students and above.
This book may be a good choice for a history teacher when studying World
War II.