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Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

Posted at 8:42 pm | Filed Under Code Talker

Interested in the Navajo culture? The battles of WWII (Pacific)? The use of the Navajo language for the codes in the war? You will find this book riveting.
Bruchac uses a Navajo grandfather as his narrator very effectively. The grandfather, Ned Begay, begins the story with his experiences growing up in an Indian boarding school where […]