Code Talkers

By Joseph Bruchac

       This book is about Navajos who joined the marines to fight in World War II. In World War II they used there native language to speak to each other over radios as code. The code could not be broken by anyone and so when the Germans and Japanese intercepted the radio talk they would not be able to decode the secret messages that they held. This was a huge part of World War II and those who knew about it were not allowed to talk about it for many years. When Navajos joined the marines they would be taken off to a boot camp with everyone who was joining the military. After they graduated the boot camp most of them would be sent to a camp where they would learn a code. The code used their language and then it would be translated into English.

        I really liked this book. The author was really good at describing how Ned Begay(the main character) felt in every moment of the book. It made it really easy to relate to him because I could easily understand what he was feeling. I also like the descriptiveness of the setting wherever he went.