Book
Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
- Published
- 2005
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Pages
- 240
- Words
- 56150
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 6.4
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 910L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 12–17
Sixteen-year-old Ned Begay joins the U.S. Marines during World War II and becomes one of the Navajo Code Talkers, using his language to transmit vital military messages in an unbreakable code while serving through some of the Pacific war's fiercest battles.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780803729216
- ISBN-10
- 0803729219
Tags
ALSC NotablesHistorical FictionHistory-World War II EraLanguagePacificPeople-Indigenous Peoples (All)Wars-Misc./Other