| Description |
1 online resource |
| Summary |
As a young Navajo boy, Chester Nez had to leave the reservation and attend boarding school, where he was taught that his native language and culture were useless. But Chester refused to give up his heritage. Years later, during World War II, Chester—and other Navajo men like him—was recruited by the US Marines to use the Navajo language to create an unbreakable military code. Suddenly the language he had been told to forget was needed to fight a war. This powerful picture book biography contains backmatter including a timeline and a portion of the Navajo code, and also depicts the life of an original Navajo code talker while capturing the importance of heritage. |
| Audience |
Text Difficulty 3 |
| Note |
Text Difficulty 3 |
| Audience |
MG/Middle grades (4th-8th) |
| Note |
MG/Middle grades (4th-8th) |
| Audience |
4.8 ATOS Level |
| Note |
4.8 ATOS Level |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader MG 4.8 0.5 194117 |
| Note |
Accelerated Reader MG 4.8 0.5 194117 |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Chicago : Albert Whitman & Company, 2018. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 18210 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
| Subject |
United States. Marine Corps -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Navajo code talkers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography -- Juvenile literature.
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| Local Subject |
BLUESTEM AWARD [2020-2021 NOMINEE]
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9780807500071 |
| ISBN |
9780807500095 (electronic bk) |
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9780807500088 (electronic bk) |
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