Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac (Historical Fiction)

Are you good at keeping a secret? I admit that is not one of my strong things - keeping secrets. What if you were in the military and did a job that was so secret that you could not tell anyone what it was you did and I mean no one could know what you where doing. In "Code Talker" you will meet Ned Begay who after many years finally gets to tell his grandchildren what he did during WWII. Before he tells us what he did during the war, he backs up his story to when he was a little boy - to set the mood so to speak. For you see, Ned was a Navajo Indian who was sent to a school far away from his home to teach him English and the American Way. It was thought to be a good American - you had to give up being Indian. Then during WWII, these Navajo Indians with their language became our biggest secret - code talkers. What kind of hardships did these brave soldiers have to endure? What exactly was a code talker and how did they help the United States? To find out more, pick up this book by Joseph Bruchac and find out.