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The Resource Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two, Joseph Bruchac

Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two, Joseph Bruchac

Label
Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Title
Code talker
Title remainder
a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Statement of responsibility
Joseph Bruchac
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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
Awards note
A Junior Library Guild selection
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1942-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Bruchac, Joseph
Dewey number
[Fic]
Index
no index present
Intended audience
910
Intended audience source
Lexile
Interest level
  • MG
  • 6-8
LC call number
PZ7.B82816
LC item number
Co 2005
Literary form
fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Reading level
  • 6.4
  • 6.5
Study program name
  • Accelerated Reader AR
  • Reading Counts RC
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • United States
  • Navajo code talkers
  • Navajo language
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Navajo Indians
  • Indians of North America
Target audience
adolescent
Label
Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two, Joseph Bruchac
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
231 pages
Isbn
9780142405963
Lccn
2003022792
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • 348420
  • (OCoLC)ocm54079926
  • (OCoLC)54079926
  • 348420
  • 1345087
Label
Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two, Joseph Bruchac
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
231 pages
Isbn
9780142405963
Lccn
2003022792
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • 348420
  • (OCoLC)ocm54079926
  • (OCoLC)54079926
  • 348420
  • 1345087

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