LCC
Juv PZ7 B82816 Co 2006
Collection
Description
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Publication
New York: Penguin (2005)
Subjects
Awards
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Nominee — 2008)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2008)
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 2008)
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Nominee — 2009)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2007)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2007)
Iowa Teen Award (Nominee — 2008)
South Dakota Teen Choice Book Awards (Nominee — 2008)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Nominee — 2008)
West Virginia Children's Choice Book Award (Nominee — 2007-2008)
Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee — Middle School — 2008)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — Grades 6-9 — 2007)
Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Nominee — 2008)
Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers (Nominee — 2007)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 2006)
CCBC Choices (2006)
Great Reads from Great Places (Arizona — 2011)
Notable Children's Book (2006)