Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story
by Joseph Bruchac and Liz Amini-Holmes
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- Grade
- 1-8
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Picture Book
- Cultural Experience
- American Indian
Year Published 2018
Word Count 1,440
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 780L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.8
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 194117, 0.5 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- Art
- English Language Arts
- History
- Subject Headings
- Navajo code talkers--Biography
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Navajo Indians--Biography
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
- World War, 1939-1945
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 20th Century
- Navajo code talkers
- United States. Marine Corps--Biography
- Participation, Indian
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Military & Wars
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Indian
- Nez, Chester
- Biographies
- Marines
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - Native American
- United States
- Cryptography
- Marines--United States--Biography
- Navajo Indians
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography
- World War, 1939-1945--Cryptography
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Multicultural Selection, 2018
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