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Code Talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two / Joseph Bruchac. |
| Authors: | Bruchac, Joseph, 1942- |
| Call number: | TEEN FIC BRU |
| Publisher: | New York : Dial Books : Speak, c2005. |
| Publication date: | c2005. |
| Subject: |
Navajo language -- Fiction.
Cryptography -- Fiction. Navajo Indians -- Fiction. Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction. Teen literature. United States. Marine Corps -- Indian troops -- Fiction. |
| Title: | Code Talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two / Joseph Bruchac. |
| Physical description: | 231 p. ; 22 cm. |
| 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 -- Author's note -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments. |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227). |
| Awards note: | Eliot Rosewater Award, 2008-2009, Nominee. |
| ISBN: | 0803729219 0142405965 (pbk.) 9781415683781 (FollettBound) |
| LCCN: | 2003022792 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|997328 |
| Bib No.: | 997328 |
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