Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story Joseph Bruchac

Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story

Author: Joseph Bruchac
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Book Title
Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story
Author
Joseph Bruchac
ISBN
9780807511350
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.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Joseph BruchacPublisher: Albert Whitman & CompanyPublished: 03/07/2024ISBN: 9780807511350Pages: 32Weight: 0.30lbsAccelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 194117 / Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's StoryReading Level: 4.8 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 0.5

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.



Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Published: 03/07/2024
ISBN: 9780807511350
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.30lbs
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 194117 / Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story
Reading Level: 4.8 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 0.5

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.



Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Published: 03/07/2024
ISBN: 9780807511350
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.30lbs
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 194117 / Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story
Reading Level: 4.8 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 0.5