Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two / Joseph Bruchac.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Dial Books, Description: 231 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Teenagers
ISBN:
  • 0803729219
  • 9780803729216
  • 9780142405963
  • 0142405965
  • 1415588163
  • 9781415588161
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 22
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.B82816 Co 2005
  • PS3552.R794 C63 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Sent away -- Boarding school -- To be forgotten -- Progress -- High school -- Sneak attack -- Navajos wanted -- New recruits -- The Blessingway -- Boot camp -- Code school -- Learning the code -- Shipping out to Hawaii -- The enemies -- Field maneuvers -- Bombardment -- First landing -- On Bougainville -- Do you have a Navajo? -- The next targets -- Guam -- Fatigue -- Pavavu -- Iwo Jima -- In sight of Suribachi -- The black beach -- Okinawa -- The bomb -- Going home.
Awards:
  • Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2006.
  • ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 2006.
  • ALA Notable Books for Children, 2006.
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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227).

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.

Sent away -- Boarding school -- To be forgotten -- Progress -- High school -- Sneak attack -- Navajos wanted -- New recruits -- The Blessingway -- Boot camp -- Code school -- Learning the code -- Shipping out to Hawaii -- The enemies -- Field maneuvers -- Bombardment -- First landing -- On Bougainville -- Do you have a Navajo? -- The next targets -- Guam -- Fatigue -- Pavavu -- Iwo Jima -- In sight of Suribachi -- The black beach -- Okinawa -- The bomb -- Going home.

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2006.

ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 2006.

ALA Notable Books for Children, 2006.

Accelerated Reader 6.4.

Reading Counts! 6.5.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.4 9.0 85819.

Reading Counts RC 6-8 6.5 13 Quiz: 36318 Guided reading level: NR.

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