| Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story Contributor(s): Bruchac, Joseph (Author), Amini-Holmes, Liz (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0807500070 ISBN-13: 9780807500071 Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Historical - Juvenile Nonfiction | History - Military & Wars |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2017035797 |
| Lexile Measure: 780 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 8.2" W x 10.2" (0.76 lbs) 32 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Chronological Period - 1940's - Religious Orientation - Native American |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 194117 Reading Level: 4.8 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. This powerful picture book biography contains backmatter including a timeline and a portion of the Navajo code, and also depicts the life of an original Navajo code talker while capturing the importance of heritage. |