- Published: New York : Dial Books, c2005.
- Year Published: 2005
- Description: 231 p.
- Language: English
- Format: Book
ISBN/Standard Number
- 0142405965 (softcover)
- 0803729219 :
Subjects
- United States. -- Marine Corps -- Participation, Indian.
- Navajo language -- Fiction.
- Code and cipher stories.
- Navajo Indians -- Fiction.
- Indians of North America -- Fiction. -- Southwest, New
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
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code talkers marines YALSA navajo indians code stories world war world war ii marine corps navajo ALA Notable Children's Books 2006 indians of north america hilo_level6 cipher stories joseph bruchac native americans native american wwii hilo_int14-17_read6 2006 best book for young adults
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A code talker : a novel about the Navajo marines of World War two
by Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-
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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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