Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story / Joseph Bruchac, pictures by Liz Amini-Holmes.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Chicago, Illinois : Albert Whitman & Company, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780807500071
- 0807500070
- Navajo code talker's story
- Nez, Chester -- Juvenile literature
- United States. Marine Corps -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Navajo code talkers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography -- Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Indian -- Juvenile literature
- Marines -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Navajo Indians -- Biography
- Navajo language -- Juvenile literature
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Biography | Nez, C. B887 | Available | 33111008880243 | ||||
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Biography | Nez, C. B887 | Available | 33111009177391 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A Junior Library Guild Selection April 2018
2018 Cybils Award Finalist, Elementary Non-Fiction
BRLA 2018 Southwest Book Award
2019 Southwest Books of the Year: Kid Pick
2020 Grand Canyon Award, Nonfiction Nominee
2020-2021 Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award Master List
STARRED REVIEW! "A perfect, well-rounded historical story that will engage readers of all ages. A perfect, well-rounded historical story that will engage readers of all ages."-- Kirkus Reviews starred review
Chester Nez was a boy told to give up his Navajo roots. He became a man who used his native language to help America win World War II.
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.
"As a boy, Chester Nez was taught his native language and culture were useless, but he was later called on to use his Navajo language to help create an unbreakable military code during WWII"-- Provided by publisher.