02119cam a2200373 4500 1262060981 TxAuBib 060720t20062005||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780142405963 0142405965 (OCoLC)19724 TxAuBib Bruchac, Joseph, 1942- Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two / Joseph Bruchac. New York : Speak, 2006. ©2005. 231 p. ; 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227). 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. 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. United States Marine Corps Indian troops Fiction. United States Marine Corps Participation, Indian Juvenile fiction. Navajo language Fiction. Navajo language Juvenile fiction. Cryptography Fiction. Cryptography Juvenile fiction. Navajo code talkers Fiction. Navajo Indians Fiction. Navajo Indians Juvenile fiction. Indians of North America Southwest, New Fiction. Indians of North America Southwest, New Juvenile fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Juvenile fiction.