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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"By the time the United States joined the Second World War in 1941, the fight against Nazi and Axis powers had already been under way for two years. In order to win the war and protect its soldiers, the US Marines recruited twenty-nine Navajo men to create a secret code that could be used to send military messages quickly and safely across battlefields. Author James Buckley Jr. explains how these brave and intelligent men developed their amazing code,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In September 1944 eleven-year-old Billie lives with her great aunt, Doff, eagerly waiting for her older brother Leo to return from boot camp, and desperate to find the father that left when she was little; but Leo brings a friend with him, a Navajo named Denny, and the injured dog they have rescued and named Bear--and when the two young men go off to war Bear becomes the thread that ties them all together, and helps Billie to find a true friend.
7) Code talker
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Chester Nez, the last surviving member of the original twenty-nine code talkers, discusses his life growing up in the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo reservation, and shares the story of how he helped the United States develop and implement a secret military language based on his native language during World War II that became the only unbroken code in modern warfare.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through narrative nonfiction, tells about the men who used the Navajo language to create a successful, top-secret code that was never cracked by enemy forces.
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition paperback.
Lexile measure
GN 630L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"There has been a great deal of writing the past several decades about Native American Code Talkers of World War Two. The published works have been about Navajos and the tremendous contribution they made in the Pacific campaigns of the war. What is often overlooked is the role played in both World Wars by men of other tribes. There were Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek and other tribal representatives with their languages involved as well.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Wishram is desperate to hang on to her few loved ones, a brother fighting in the South Pacific and Japanese friends in a relocation camp. Determined to end the war by any means necessary, she is willing to use her language skills as a Yakama tribe member to become a spy and face any danger to bring them all home safe. John Painted Horse, a proud Navajo, struggles with the loss of his father, who died in WWI for a country that didn't consider...