| | |  | | Home » Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | 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.
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Joseph Bruchac | | Paperback:
| 231 pages | | Publisher:
| Speak | | Publication Date:
| July 06, 2006 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0142405965 | | Product Length:
| 8.2 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.7 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.55 pounds | | Package Length:
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27 of 28 found the following review helpful:
code talker reviewDec 29, 2005
By G. Dinunzio
"random book choser"
my son asked me to pick out a relatively short book from the library for his 8th grade book report. Code talker was it. After he raved about it, and spoke of some specifics, i read it myself before returning to the library. It is a beautifully told tale that intertwines the 'simple' english translation of a navajo language filled with spirituality, respect, honor, and a mythological belief in how things came to be.
How these Navajo marines came to become major players in WWII victory in the face of horrendous racially biased treatment at home is gripping. They were great american heroes, only to be treated like dirt upon their arrival home. Powerful, fascinating story that is impossible to put down.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Code TalkersSep 29, 2005
Code Talkers is a fantastic book. The author Joseph Bruchac really knows how to write a good book. When the main charector was growing up he was told he would be nothing. When he got out of boarding school he was on his way to being a big succes.
When he grew up he, he decided to do something with his life so he joined the Marines after Pearl Harbor was attacked. At that time the marines were looking for codetalkers Navajo codetalkers. The Marines attimatically sent him to the Pacific to start transmitting messages.
12 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Terrific bookSep 28, 2007
By Glenn Miller
Bruchac has created a terrific historic novel that has enough action for young male adults and enough history and research to appeal to an adult audience. Bruchac does a wonderful job of giving a sense of the complexities of growing up on a Navajo reservation in the first half of the book. The irony of a nation trying to wipe out the Navajo language but using it as a crucial means of communication during 20th century wars should not be lost on the reader while reading the second half of the book. Bruchac's narrator tells this tale in an even-keeled, even-tempered manner. The reader is allowed to gain his own sense of injustice our nation has inflicted upon its Native American population. Bruchac's description of the progression of America's involvement in World War II's Pacific campaign is well laid-out and dramatically presented. Highly recommended.
14 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Code TalkerMay 11, 2006
What did Navajo Indians do in World War 2? The title of my book is Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac. The main character is Kii Yazhi. He is forced to go to boarding school. From boarding school he heads off to war.
In the beginning of the story, he was forced to to leave his family and go to a school where they hated Navajo Indians. In the middle of the book, Kii was a code talker. Being a code talker he spoke the native language as a code in World War 2. To find out what happened to Kii, read the book.
The theme is Navajo Indians helped Americans in World War 2. This book reminded me of wars. Boys who like action will like this book.
B.C. in Annapolis
9 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Code Talker: A novel about the Navajo Marines of World War IISep 07, 2005
By Kimberly D. Sampson
"dreamweaver"
Joseph Bruchac does a wonderful job of showing the reader the life of the Navajo young during the 1920-30s as well as telling of this powerful and until fairly recently (1969) unknown aspect of the second World War. I am a high school media specialist and have selected this title to use with my student and faculty historical fiction book discussion groups for 2005-2006.
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