Author: Joseph Bruchac
Narrator: Derrick Henry
Unabridged: 5 hr 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC
Published: 01/18/2013
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Boys & Men
Ages: 12 - UP
Code Talker, with starred reviews from Booklist and Kirkus Reviews, is a Booklist Top 10 Historical Fiction for Youth. Although the mission school bans all that is Navajo, Ned secretly clings to his native language and culture. Proudly joining the U.S. Marines in 1943, he becomes a top-secret Navajo Code Talker. During bloody battles for Japanese islands, Ned and his brave band of code-talking brothers save thousands of lives using Navajo encryption the enemy never cracks.