Code talker : a novel about the Navajo marines of world war two /

Bruchac, Joseph

Code talker : a novel about the Navajo marines of world war two / Joseph Bruchac. - New York : Scholastic, 2005. - 230 p.: 19 cm

Lex: 910

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.


English

0-439-89100-0


United States. Marine Corps --Indian troops--Fiction
United States. Marine Corps --Participation, Indian--Juvenile fiction


Navajo language--FICTION
Cryptography--FICTION
Navajo code talkers--FICTION
Navajo Indians--FICTION
Indians of North America--Southwest, New--FICTION
Navajo language--Juvenile fiction
Cryptography--Juvenile fiction
Navajo Indians--Juvenile fiction
Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Juvenile fiction

B88c 2006