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  <title><![CDATA[Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two]]></title>
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  <default-description>The United States is at war, and sixteen-year-old Ned Begay wants to join the cause&amp;#151;especially when he hears that Navajos are being specifically recruited by the Marine Corps. So he claims he's old enough to enlist, breezes his way through boot camp, and suddenly finds himself involved in a top-secret task, one that's exclusively performed by Navajos. He has become a code talker. Now Ned must brave some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with his native Navajo language as code, send crucial messages back and forth to aid in the conflict against Japan. His experiences in the Pacific&amp;#151;from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima and beyond&amp;#151;will leave him forever changed.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2005</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joseph Bruchac]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[All his life Ned Begay has been told that being Navajo is bad. At the mission school, all the Navajos are told to forget their language, to forget everything about being Navajo. Speaking English and emulating the white man is the only way to get ahead, or so they are told. However, when World War II...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1818744">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was really looking forward to reading this young adult historical fiction novel. I never did see the movie about the Navajo Code Talkers, but I remember reading about them. While containing a lot of very accurate historical information about the war and Navajo culture, I didn't think the novel flo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73025813">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this fictional account of the Navajo code-talkers of World War II, Ned Begay becomes one of the Marines involved in a top-secret communications project.  He’s only sixteen when he joins the war effort and he’s had to endure years of mission school where his teachers strongly encouraged him to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49149560">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I highly recommend!  This is really a sensitive, balanced, well researched account of the Navajos who developed a code which the Japanese were unable to crack.  The story becomes alive and real through the fictional protanongist.  It is ironic that historical fiction can be more real than just dry h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41106534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65287805">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jul 28 12:20:19 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This historical novel  allows its readers to walk alongside a young Navajo man of World War II era, as the events of his life take him from the reservation school which teaches him that his native language should be dismissed, to his participation in the war as a person who transmitted information f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65287805">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51726477">
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Code Talker was an enjoyable, easy to read historical fiction book simply because of the way the author chose to write/tell the story of Ned Begay. He tells the story of his time as a code talker during World War II from the point of view of a grandfather telling his grandchildren about his medal.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51726477">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38983794">
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite the subject matter - putting Indians in boarding schools, and World II, this is a quiet, gentle read. I learned so much from reading the book - especially about the battles in the South Pacific during World War II. The numbers of casualties are absolutely astounding! In the 83 days it took t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38983794">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72482712">
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book!  This novel reads like a biography.  It is told in the voice of a Grandfather telling his grandchildren about his life in American boarding schools whose goal was to stamp out Navajo language and culture.  Years later, the Navajo language saved many lives in World War Two.  The Na...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72482712">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75512553">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is probably my favorite war story that I have read.  Mostly because it was written by somebody who had the expereince in the war that they were writing about. I learned a lot of new vocabulary in this book.  I don't remember any of the terms because they were in the rare language <em>Navajo</em>. But I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75512553">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book. I have always been interested in the story of the Navajo Code Talkers during WWII. They were Marines and fought on the same islands as my husband Uncle. Wish I could of asked him if he ever encountered them. The story is told through the eyes of one young Navajo man. You see how he is se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64500565">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was really interesting and made me want to look at some non-fiction books about the Code Talkers.  My only problem with it is that often it would have detailed descriptions of battles and strategy and things like that that weren't quite as interesting to me.  In the Author's Note, he says ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75727777">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Code Talker&quot; is a fictionalized narrative focusing on the role of the Navajo Marines in World War Two and written for young people. It tells the story of the astounding contribution of the Navajo language code system that saved countless American lives in the war with Japan. The actual co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49319535">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Code Talker is very readable and well-researched.  It feels like an actual memoir since it is written as if Ned Begay were telling the story to his grandchildren.  The beginning of the book, which details his experiences in boarding school and high school, felt very authentic.  I was also very inter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30514239">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26795257">
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    <body><![CDATA[(audiobook) I enjoyed this a lot.  It's a subject I find fascinating (maybe because I live in the 4 corners region), and the historical detail is wonderful.  Kind of like a Michener book: the fictional protagonist lives through famous real experiences, and meets or is influenced by real historical f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26795257">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10361110">
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    <body><![CDATA[    Joseph Bruchac has such a great use of different techniques. He has such an amazing use of word choice, and that leads us to a great imagery. A passage I really loved, and is a great example of the  author's use of technique is: <em>They are Navajo voices speaking strongly in our sacred language. Sp...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10361110">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ned Begay, once known only as Kii Yazhi, narrates the tale of his life, from leaving his home, to entering the white-run boarding school, to fighting in the South Pacific. Ned's journey begins when he is six and his Navajo family decides to send him for an education at an Indian Boarding School. The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13141239">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to this book as I worked around the house.  I really think I would have liked it more if I read it myself.  Even though this story isn't like the others I read, I found it enjoyable and educational.  I learned a little more about WWII and the role the Navajo soldiers played in it.  Though...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76527934">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ned Begay was only 16 years old when he left the Indian Reservation he grew up on and enlisted in the Marines  to fight in WWII.  His life was difficult as a young boy in a boarding school where he was forbidden to speak his native language and told that all things Navajo are bad and to be forgotten...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19951906">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Navajo grandfather tell his grandchildren about being forced to go to a white man's boarding school where he was forbidden to speak Navajo and forced to speak English.  After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Marines and was recruited as a Code Talker.  He tells of his experiences in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49665590">more...</a>]]></body>
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