Families who loved Code Name Badass The True Story of Virginia Hall by Heather Demetrios often look for books with a similar feel. These 20 recommendations were selected for their similarity in style, theme, and reading level.
Reach for this book when your teenager feels like the world is constantly underestimating them or when they are struggling to reconcile a physical limitation with their big ambitions. Code Name Badass is a fast paced, irreverent biography of Virginia Hall, an American socialite who became the Gestapo's most wanted Allied spy during WWII despite having a prosthetic leg she nicknamed Cuthbert. This is not a dry history lesson. It is a gritty, humorous, and deeply inspiring look at how one woman's resilience and refusal to accept the word no changed the course of the war. Parents will appreciate how it frames disability as a challenge to be managed through wit and grit rather than a tragic ending. While the language and wartime violence are geared toward a mature teen audience, the message of self reliance and fierce independence is universal.
