inZone Book: Navajo Code Talkers (Reader's Workshop) - Softcover
Navajo Marines created a secret code using their Navajo language. Learn how this group of heroes helped the United States win World War II.
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Andrew Santella writes for magazines and newspapers, including GQ and the New York Times Book Review. He is the author of a number of books for young readers. He lives outside Chicago with his wife and son.
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Reviewed with Michael Burgan's The Titanic.
Gr. 3-6. Although many of the titles in the extensive We the People series deal with our country's revolutionary beginnings, these two cover more recent U.S. history. Titanic capitalizes on the famous tragedy's morbid allure, covering everything from the "unsinkable" behemoth's construction to the discovery of its remains on the ocean floor in 1985. While sure to attract many readers, Titanic stands to fill a much less conspicuous gap in collections than Navajo Code Talkers; few children will have heard about the Marines' secret recruitment of Navajos during World War II to develop and implement a code based on their native language. Cryptographically inclined kids will particularly appreciate the chart listing code words for the letters of the alphabet and cleverly improvised military terms, such as chicken hawk for dive bomber and eggs for bombs. Both treatments are smoothly written, concise enough for reluctant readers, and abundantly illustrated with well-chosen archival photos. Though the glossaries are unaccountably brief, other concluding resources should prove more useful, especially the prescreened Web sites accessible online--including one featuring recordings of Navajo code words. Jennifer Mattson
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- PublisherNational Geographic School Pub
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0736227946
- ISBN 13 9780736227940
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
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