Code Talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
(40859)
Physical
231 pages
Produced
2006
Distributor
Speak
(4196)
Audience
Intermediate, Junior High (IJ)
Collection
Professional Library
Synopsis
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.
Author
Bruchac, Joseph
Dimensions
21 cm.
ISBN#
0142405965
Pub. Loc.
New York
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.