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001 2006298485
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005 20190729104327.0
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010 _a 2006298485
020 _a0142405965
020 _a9780142405963 (pbk.)
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_bCod 2006
100 1 _aBruchac, Joseph,
_d1942-
245 1 0 _aCode talker :
_ba novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two /
_cJoseph Bruchac.
260 _aNew York :
_bSpeak,
_c2006, c2005.
300 _a231 p. ;
_c21 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-227).
505 _aSent 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.
520 _aAfter 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.
526 0 _aAccelerated Reader AR
_bMG
_c6.4
_d9.0
_z85819.
650 0 _aNavajo language
_vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 _aCryptography
_vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 _aNavajo Indians
_vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 _aCode and cipher stories.
610 1 0 _aUnited States. Marine Corps
_xParticipation, Indian
_vJuvenile fiction.
655 7 _aHistorical fiction.
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949 _aPZ7 .B82816 Cod 2006
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