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Title
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.
Stmt Resp Joseph Bruchac.
Subjects Historical fiction; Native Americans—Fiction; Cryptography—Fiction; World War, 1939-1945—Fiction; Navajo (Native American people)—Fiction; United States.—Marine Corps—Fiction(A); Aboriginal; English/Language Arts
Call# FIC BRU
Note FER Approved.
Holdings
Book 1 copy
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