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Author
Publisher
Creative Editions
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations
Language
English
Description
Illustrated narrative of the work of the U.S. Marine Corps' Navajo Code Talkers. Discusses persecution of Navajos, recruitment of Navajo servicemen, simple Navajo words and their translations, and the Code Talkers' legacy.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Full-color graphic novel retells the story of the Navajo Code Talkers, a group of Navajo soldiers who developed a code for transmitting messages based on their native language that was never decoded by enemy forces for the duration of its use in three wars. Includes a glossary, resources for further reading, and discussion questions.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Caliber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xii, 240 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the morning of October 25, 1944, in the waters off Samar, a small flotilla of US Navy ships encountered a Japanese fleet superior in both vessels and firepower. Aboard the USS Johnston, Capt. Ernest Evans seized the moment, ordering his destroyer to steam forward and attack. Heavily out-gunned, Evans and his sailors fired torpedo after torpedo, all the while maneuvering to dodge enemy shells, as two other American destroyers joined the fight....
Author
Publisher
Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family -- loving, weaving, cooking, and singing. The strength in their song sustains them through trials on the ground and in the sky, as they wait for their loved one, a pilot, to return from war."--Amazon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"By the time the United States joined the Second World War in 1941, the fight against Nazi and Axis powers had already been under way for two years. In order to win the war and protect its soldiers, the US Marines recruited twenty-nine Navajo men to create a secret code that could be used to send military messages quickly and safely across battlefields. Author James Buckley Jr. explains how these brave and intelligent men developed their amazing code,...
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A biographical picture book about Clarence Tinker, a member of the Osage Nation, who endured abuse growing up at the hands of a boarding school and went on to serve in the United States Air Force in World War II"--
8) Code talker
Author
Publisher
Berkley Caliber
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 310 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chester Nez, the last surviving member of the original twenty-nine code talkers, discusses his life growing up in the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo reservation, and shares the story of how he helped the United States develop and implement a secret military language based on his native language during World War II that became the only unbroken code in modern warfare.
Author
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
122 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the role of a select group of Navajo Marines who developed a code based on their own native language that provided a means for secure communications among American forces in the Pacific during World War II.
Author
Series
Heroines of WWII volume 10
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
415 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Wishram is desperate to hang on to her few loved ones, a brother fighting in the South Pacific and Japanese friends in a relocation camp. Determined to end the war by any means necessary, she is willing to use her language skills as a Yakama tribe member to become a spy and face any danger to bring them all home safe. John Painted Horse, a proud Navajo, struggles with the loss of his father, who died in WWI for a country that didn't consider...
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Learn all about the talented Navajo code talkers during World War II with this fun-filled nonfiction reader--carefully leveled to help children progress . . . 'Navajo Code Talkers' will introduce kids to the Navajo code talkers sending top-secret messages in code based on their native languages during World War II . . . and is a motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills, proving ideal for children ready to enter the riveting...
Author
Series
Medal of honor volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The true story for middle grade readers of First Lt. Jack Montgomery, a Native American who received the Medal of Honor for his valor in World War II."--Provided by publisher.