Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two

Title
: 
Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two

Author
: 
Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-

ISBN
: 
9780803729216

Publication Information
: 
New York : Dial Books, c2005.

Physical Description
: 
231 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents
: 
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.

Reading Level
: 
910 L Lexile

Corporate Subject
: 
United States. Marine Corps -- Participation, Indian -- Fiction.
 
United States. Marine Corps -- Indian troops -- Fiction.

Subject Term
: 
Navajo language -- Fiction.
 
Navajo code talkers -- Fiction.
 
Navajo Indians -- Fiction.
 
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Fiction.
 
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.

Summary
: 
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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