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

    By Joseph Bruchac and Liz Amini-Holmes

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlbert Whitman & Company
    Release dateApr 1, 2018
    ISBN9780807500088
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    Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story
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    Joseph Bruchac

    Joseph Bruchac is the author of Skeleton Man, The Return of Skeleton Man, Bearwalker, The Dark Pond, and Whisper in the Dark, as well as numerous other critically acclaimed novels, poems, and stories, many drawing on his Abenaki heritage. Mr. Bruchac and his wife, Carol, live in upstate New York, in the same house where he was raised by his grandparents. You can visit him online at www.josephbruchac.com.

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