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

Bruchac, Joseph, 1942- (author.).

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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  • ISBN: 9780439891004
  • ISBN: 0439891000
  • ISBN: 9780803729216
  • ISBN: 0803729219
  • ISBN: 9780142405963
  • ISBN: 0142405965
  • Physical Description: 231 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Dial Books, [2005]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227).
Formatted Contents Note:
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.

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Subject:
United States. Marine Corps > Indian troops > Fiction.
Navajo code talkers > Fiction.
Navajo language > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Cryptography > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Indian > Fiction.
Navajo Indians > Fiction.
Indians of North America > Southwest, New > Fiction.
Genre:
War fiction.
Young adult fiction.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.

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