Set during World War II. Code Name Verity focuses on a friendship between two young women: a spy captured by Nazis in occupied France and the pilot who brought her there. A Michael L. Printz Award Honor book that was called "a fiendishly-plotted mind game of a novel" in The New York Times, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger. resolve and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other.

Elizabeth Wein's childhood was shaped by five years spent in England and Jamaica, where her father, an educational psychologist, was engaged in teacher training for the Headstart program in its formative years. ELizabeth never got over this travel bug and has lived abroad for over 20 years, settling in Scotland in 2000 with her husband and two children. She earned a private pilot's license there in 2003 and now holds both British and American citizenship.

Her 2017 novel, The Pearl Thief, is a young adult mystery set in Scotland in 1938 and stars the appealing narrator of Code Name Verity  in her madcap youth. Elizabeth also has a science fiction novel to her name, Cobalt Squadron, set in the Star Wars universe and connected to the 2017 release The Last Jedi. She is currently working on non-fiction for young people about the women who flew as combat pilots in the Soviet Union during World War II.

This event is made possible by the generous support of the Portage Public Schools, the Portage District Library's Grandmother and CIG Endowment Fund; the Irving S. Gilmore Foundation; Midwest Energy and Communications; Miedema, Kinney & Associates - Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.; and the Rotary Club of Portage.