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

Publication Info.	New York : Speak, 2006.
	©2005

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Description	231 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227).
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.
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 -- Author's note -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.4 9.0 85819.
Subject	Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Fiction.
	United States. Marine Corps -- Indian troops -- Fiction.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
	Navajo Indians -- Juvenile fiction.
	Navajo language -- Juvenile fiction.
	Code and cipher stories.
	Navajo Indians -- Fiction.
	United States. Marine Corps -- Participation, Indian -- Juvenile fiction.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
	Code and cipher stories.
	Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Juvenile fiction.
	Navajo code talkers -- Fiction.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- Southwest, New -- Fiction.
Subject	Navajo language -- Fiction.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- Southwest, New -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN	0142405965
Standard No.	9780142405963

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