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Elizabeth Wein

Personal Information

Born October 2, 1964 (61 years old)
New York City, United Kingdom
Also known as: WEIN ELIZABETH, Alexander, Lloyd, Farmer, Nancy, Pierce, Meredith Ann, Wein, Elizabeth, Cadnum, Michael, Dalkey, Kara, Springer, Nancy, Bull, Emma, McKillip, Patricia
13 books
3.8 (18)
196 readers

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Elizabeth E. Wein (/wiːn/, born October 2, 1964) is an American-born writer best known for her young adult historical fiction. She holds both American and British citizenship.

Books

Newest First

Star Wars - The Last Jedi - Cobalt Squadron

2.0 (3)
8

While investigating reports of a First Order blockade in the Atterra system, Cobalt Squadron is approached by two freedom fighters desperate to save their home.

Rose Under Fire

4.5 (4)
18

When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.

Code Name Verity

4.3 (9)
134

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

The sunbird

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0

When, in the sixth century, plague spreads from Britain to Aksum, young Telemakos travels to the kingdom's salt mines to discover the identity of the traitor to the crown who, ignoring the emperor's command, is spreading plague with the salt from port to port.

The pearl thief

4.0 (1)
6

Sixteen-year-old Julie Beaufort-Stuart is returning to her family's ancestral home in Perthshire for one last summer. Her grandfather's death has forced the sale of the house and estate and this will be a summer of goodbyes. Not least to the McEwen family, Highland travellers who have been part of the landscape for as long as anyone can remember, loved by the family, loathed by the authorities. Tensions are already high when a respected London archivist goes missing, presumed murdered. Suspicion quickly falls on the McEwens, but Julie knows not one of them would do such a thing and is determined to prove everyone wrong. And then she notices the family's treasure trove of pearls is missing.

A coalition of lions

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1

After the death of Artos, High King of Britain, and his sons, his daughter Princess Goewin journeys to Aksum to meet Constantine, her intended husband, but finds the country in political turmoil.

Black dove white raven

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2

Emilia and Teo's lives changed in a fiery, terrifying instant when a bird strike brought down the plane their stunt pilot mothers were flying. Teo's mother died immediately, but Em's survived, determined to raise Teo according to his late mother's wishes-in a place where he won't be discriminated against because of the color of his skin. But in 1930s America, a white woman raising a black adoptive son alongside a white daughter is too often seen as a threat.