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Code Name Badass: The True Story of Virginia Hall

When James Bond was still in diapers, Virginia Hall was behind enemy lines, playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Hitler’s henchmen. Did this shero have second thoughts after a terrible accident left her needing a wooden leg? Please. Virginia Hall was the baddest broad in any room she walked into.

When the State Department proved to be a sexist boys’ club that wouldn’t allow her in, she gave the finger to society’s expectations of women and became a spy for the British. This boss lady helped arm and train the French Resistance and organized sabotage missions. There was just one problem: The Butcher of Lyon, a notorious Gestapo commander, was after her. But, hey — Virginia’s classmates didn’t call her the Fighting Blade for nothing.

So how does a girl who was a pirate in the school play, spent her childhood summers milking goats, and rocked it on the hockey field end up becoming the Gestapo’s most wanted spy? This riotous, spirited biography tells the story of the most dangerous of all Allied spies, courageous and kickass Virginia Hall. Audacious, irreverent, and fiercely feminist, Code Name Badass is for anyone who doesn’t take no for an answer.

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"Demetrios tells this fascinating story in an uber-modern narrative voice that is snarky AF, LOL, with plenty of hits to the patriarchy and a glorious sense of celebrating [Hall]’s badassery. It’s breezy and lighthearted in tone but meticulously well-researched, including interviews with [Hall]’s surviving family. A remarkable telling of an extraordinary woman." — Kirkus Reviews

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Recommended Age 14 and up
Author Heather Demetrios
ISBN 153443187X
Publication Date Sep 7, 2021
Publisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language English