Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two Joseph Bruchac.
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TextPublisher: New York : Speak, 2006, c2005Description: 231 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 0142405965Subject(s): United States. Marine Corps -- Participation, Indian -- Juvenile fiction | Navajo language -- Juvenile fiction | Cryptography -- Juvenile fiction | Navajo Indians -- Juvenile fiction | Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Juvenile fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile fiction| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | YA BRUC (Browse shelf) | Available | 31891 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227).
Sent away -- Boarding school -- To be forgotten -- Progress -- High school -- Sneak attack -- Navajos wanted -- New recruits -- Blessingway -- Boot camp -- Code school -- Learning the code -- Shipping out to Hawaii -- Enemies -- Field maneuvers -- Bombardment -- First landing -- On Bougainville -- Do you have a Navajo? -- Next targets -- Guam -- Fatigue -- Pavavu -- Iwo Jima -- In sight of Suribachi -- Black beach -- Okinawa -- Bomb -- Going home -- Author's note -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments.
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
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