Title:
Code Talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two / Joseph Bruchac.
ISBN:
9780142405963
9780803729216
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Dial Books, [2005]
©2005
Physical Description:
231 pages ; 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.
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.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.4 9.0 85819.
Reading Counts RC 6-8 6.5 13 Quiz: 36318 Guided reading level: NR.
Corporate Subject:
Genre:
Audience:
910L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocm54079926
Availability:
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