Code Girls: The True Story of the American Women Who Secretly Broke Codes in World War II

by Liza Mundy

Book Overview

In the tradition of Hidden Figures and The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girls is the amazing true story of the young American women who cracked German and Japanese military codes during World War II.

More than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II, recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to the nation's capital to learn the top...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316353736
• ISBN13: 9780316353731
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7