Title:
Code talkers
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
Lee and Charlie Yazhee are Navajo brothers who are forbidden to speak their own language at their residential school. When the Japanese attack Pear Harbor, however, the brothers find that their native language is key to winning World War II.
Year Published:
2008
Series:
Physical Description:
48 p. : col. ill., photos, col. photos ; 26 cm.
Note:
"A Rubicon book published in association with Scholastic Canada" -- pg. [2] of cover.
Includes index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Chapter 1: Forbidden Words -- Time Out: Navajo Nation -- Chapter 2: Boot Camp -- Time Out: Code Words -- Chapter 3: Guam -- Time Out: Island Hopping -- Chapter 4: Ambush! -- Time Out: The Chamorros -- Chapter 5: Reunion -- Time Out: Iwo Jima -- Moving On: Medal of Honour.
Grade Interest level:
3-6
Program Information:
FNMI
Added Author:
ISBN:
9781554482566
9781770582958
9781419044014
Publisher:
Markham, ON : Scholastic, 2008.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014].
©2008
